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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
Lion
Lions
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The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
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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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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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In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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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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Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
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The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
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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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The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.
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It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
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Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves and the higher they be, the less they should show.
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The day seems long, but night is odious no sleep, but dreams no dreams but visions strange.
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In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
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Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.
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A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.
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Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.
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