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He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

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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
Poverty
Love
Unpleasantly
Travels
Guarded
Guided
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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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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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Liking is not always the child of beauty but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
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Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.
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A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
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For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.
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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
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Fool, said my muse to me. Look in thy heart and write.
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