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No is no negative in a woman's mouth.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
Military Personnel
Novelist
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Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.
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Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
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My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
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As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.
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Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
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There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
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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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Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.
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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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The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.
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Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
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There is nothing evil but what is within us the rest is either natural or accidental.
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As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.
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It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.
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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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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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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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High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.
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Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
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Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
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