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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
Poet
Politician
Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
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Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
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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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The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
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What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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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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Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
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In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
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It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
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Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
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Fool, said my muse to me. Look in thy heart and write.
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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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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 well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
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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 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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It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.
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