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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.
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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.
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The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
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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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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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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
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Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
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Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.
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Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
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He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
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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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The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
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Fool, said my muse to me. Look in thy heart and write.
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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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A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
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