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All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

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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
Wisdom
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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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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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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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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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Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
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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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A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
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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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Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
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The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
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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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