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Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
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Novelist
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Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
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In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
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No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
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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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For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.
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Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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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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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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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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As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.
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