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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
Time
Love
Giveth
Burdens
Burden
Wings
Another

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It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.
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A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
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Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.
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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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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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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
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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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