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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
Sleeping
Wake
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The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
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Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
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He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
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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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True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
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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 end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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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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We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
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What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
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Fool, said my muse to me. Look in thy heart and write.
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It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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