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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
Knowledge
Action
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Virtuous

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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
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A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
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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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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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Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
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It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
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There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.
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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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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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What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love but the secret of my friend is not mine!
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It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
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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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But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
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What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.
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