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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
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I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
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In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
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Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.
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No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
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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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In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.
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Love, one time, layeth burdens another time, giveth wings.
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And thou my minde aspire to higher things Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
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Fear is the underminer of all determinations and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
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Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves and the higher they be, the less they should show.
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Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.
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The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.
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O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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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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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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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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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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