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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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Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
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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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The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?
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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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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 a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.
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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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There is nothing evil but what is within us the rest is either natural or accidental.
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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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Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
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Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
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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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The day seems long, but night is odious no sleep, but dreams no dreams but visions strange.
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They love indeed who quake to say they love.
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O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
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