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I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.

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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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Conscience
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Fear is the underminer of all determinations and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
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A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.
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As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
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Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.
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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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How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!
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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.
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In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
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The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.
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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
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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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