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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
Interwoven
Fast
Benefits
Friendship
Made

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It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.
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Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.
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He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
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A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
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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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All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
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It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.
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Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.
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Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.
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It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
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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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In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
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As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.
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To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.
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Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
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But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
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It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
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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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Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
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O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
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