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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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**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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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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Love, one time, layeth burdens another time, giveth wings.
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A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
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No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
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As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
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To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.
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Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.
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The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.
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Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.
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A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
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In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
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It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
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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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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
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Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.
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Fear is the underminer of all determinations and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
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I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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