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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

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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
Kindness
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Churlish
Courtesy
Falsehood
Rarely
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Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.
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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 dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
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A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
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He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
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Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.
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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
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It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
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There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
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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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