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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
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Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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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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Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
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Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
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The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.
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He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
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To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
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The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
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Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
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No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
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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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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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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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It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.
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Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
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