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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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He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
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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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It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
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Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?
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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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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
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Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.
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**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo....A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about life.
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Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
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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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Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.
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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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Liking is not always the child of beauty but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
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Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
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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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It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.
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No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
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All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
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A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
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