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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
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Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
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The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.
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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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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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Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.
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All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
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And thou my minde aspire to higher things Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
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It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
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The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?
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Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.
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I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
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It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
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Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
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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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The first mark of valor is defence.
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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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It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.
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No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
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