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Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

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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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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
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Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
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Fear is the underminer of all determinations and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
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As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
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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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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
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Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
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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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My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
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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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For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.
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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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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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