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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
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Kindness
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Churlish
Courtesy
Falsehood
Rarely
Gain

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A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
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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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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
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Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.
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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
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Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.
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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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Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.
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As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.
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With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
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As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.
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**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo....A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about life.
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True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.
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For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.
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To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
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