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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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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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As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.
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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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No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
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The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.
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There is nothing evil but what is within us the rest is either natural or accidental.
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Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
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The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.
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Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
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O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
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The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?
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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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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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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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A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.
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Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
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What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
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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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