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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
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Novelist
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Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
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Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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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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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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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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The day seems long, but night is odious no sleep, but dreams no dreams but visions strange.
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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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Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
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As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
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Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
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What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love but the secret of my friend is not mine!
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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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The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.
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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 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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**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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All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
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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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A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
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