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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
Military Personnel
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
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All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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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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It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.
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It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
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Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
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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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Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves and the higher they be, the less they should show.
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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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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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