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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
Poet
Politician
Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
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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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It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
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Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
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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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There is nothing evil but what is within us the rest is either natural or accidental.
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Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.
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True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
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Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
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Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
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Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
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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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To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.
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Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
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To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
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There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.
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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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