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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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Politician
Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
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Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.
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Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves and the higher they be, the less they should show.
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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
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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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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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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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Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
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We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
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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 dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
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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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In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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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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