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It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

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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
Lions
Sleeping
Wake
Sleep
Good
Lion

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It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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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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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
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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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Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
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In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
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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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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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Love, one time, layeth burdens another time, giveth wings.
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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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True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
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There is nothing evil but what is within us the rest is either natural or accidental.
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It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
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And thou my minde aspire to higher things Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
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A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.
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