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Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.

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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
Fast
Benefits
Friendship
Made
Interwoven

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What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
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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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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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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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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
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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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Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.
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What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love but the secret of my friend is not mine!
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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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