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As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
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Sir Philip Sidney
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Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
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Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.
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The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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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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God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.
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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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Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.
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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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It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.
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Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
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Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.
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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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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
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