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A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
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Novelist
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Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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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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Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.
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We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
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But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
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There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
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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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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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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
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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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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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