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Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
Military Personnel
Novelist
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Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
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A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
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In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
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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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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
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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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Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
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Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
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He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
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No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
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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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The day seems long, but night is odious no sleep, but dreams no dreams but visions strange.
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Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
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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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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
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As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.
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