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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
Even
Love
Life
Secrecy
Mines
Mine
Friend
Secret

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Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
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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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The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.
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Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.
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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
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Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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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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There is nothing evil but what is within us the rest is either natural or accidental.
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Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
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How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!
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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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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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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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Liking is not always the child of beauty but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
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In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
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