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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
Life
Secrecy
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Mine
Friend
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Even
Love

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Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
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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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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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Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.
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A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.
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Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
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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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Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
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High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.
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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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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.
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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.
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Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
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What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
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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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