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True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
Military Personnel
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
True
Bravery
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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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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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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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It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
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Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
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It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.
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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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