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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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Novelist
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Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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Fool, said my muse to me. Look in thy heart and write.
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We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
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He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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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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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 no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.
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The first mark of valor is defence.
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A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
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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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**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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The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.
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It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
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Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.
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To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.
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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.
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A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
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And thou my minde aspire to higher things Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
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It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
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