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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
Military Personnel
Novelist
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Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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Fear is the underminer of all determinations and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
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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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In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
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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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Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
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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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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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What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
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The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
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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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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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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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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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O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
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With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
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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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No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
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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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