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Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.

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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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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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Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
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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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The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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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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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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As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.
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Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
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Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
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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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Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.
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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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Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
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They love indeed who quake to say they love.
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It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
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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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