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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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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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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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The day seems long, but night is odious no sleep, but dreams no dreams but visions strange.
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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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Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
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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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No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
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Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
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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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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.
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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
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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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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.
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In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
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Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
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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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He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
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