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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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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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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
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Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
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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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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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What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
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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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I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
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