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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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He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
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Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.
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Love, one time, layeth burdens another time, giveth wings.
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The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.
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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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Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
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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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Fool, said my muse to me. Look in thy heart and write.
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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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For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.
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Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
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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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Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
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Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
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My true love hath my heart, and I have his
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God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.
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