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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
Rhymed
Ireland
Death
Done

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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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The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
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Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.
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It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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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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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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Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
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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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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
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