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What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love but the secret of my friend is not mine!

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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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Love
Life
Secrecy
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The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?
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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
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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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A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.
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In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
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Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
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Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
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For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.
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Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?
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