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Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
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Kent
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Sir Philip Sidney
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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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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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They love indeed who quake to say they love.
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Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
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True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
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Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.
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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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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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But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
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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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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
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Love, one time, layeth burdens another time, giveth wings.
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Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.
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A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
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No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.
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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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