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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
Military Personnel
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
Virtuous
Knowledge
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Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
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To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.
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Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
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Liking is not always the child of beauty but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
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Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.
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Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
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The day seems long, but night is odious no sleep, but dreams no dreams but visions strange.
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Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.
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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
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In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
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It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.
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A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
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**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo....A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about life.
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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
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Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.
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Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.
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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
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The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.
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