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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
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Friendship
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It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
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Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
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No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
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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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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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High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.
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A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.
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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
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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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Liking is not always the child of beauty but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
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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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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
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O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
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The day seems long, but night is odious no sleep, but dreams no dreams but visions strange.
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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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