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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
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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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It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
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O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
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High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.
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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
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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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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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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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Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
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Liking is not always the child of beauty but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
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Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
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The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.
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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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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.
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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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For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.
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