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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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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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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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There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
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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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Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
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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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Fear is the underminer of all determinations and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
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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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For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.
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They love indeed who quake to say they love.
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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
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My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
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The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
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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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In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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