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It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

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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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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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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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In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
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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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