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Love, one time, layeth burdens another time, giveth wings.

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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
Love
Giveth
Burdens
Burden
Wings
Another
Time

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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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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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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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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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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
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Liking is not always the child of beauty but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
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My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
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All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
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I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.
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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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The first mark of valor is defence.
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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
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Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.
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As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
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