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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.

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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
Minerva
Virtuous
Wise

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The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.
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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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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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The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?
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Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.
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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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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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Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.
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We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
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Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
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Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
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In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
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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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Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves and the higher they be, the less they should show.
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I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
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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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In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
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It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
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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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