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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
Ireland
Death
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My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
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Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
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It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
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A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
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Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
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The first mark of valor is defence.
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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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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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Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
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What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
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With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
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**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo....A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about life.
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He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
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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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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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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.
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The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
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