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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
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Novelist
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Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo....A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about life.
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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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O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
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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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Fear is the underminer of all determinations and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
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How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!
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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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Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.
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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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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
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A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.
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He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
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Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
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To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
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Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
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No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
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Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves and the higher they be, the less they should show.
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Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.
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All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
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We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
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