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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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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
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Sir Philip Sidney
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And thou my minde aspire to higher things Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
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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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High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.
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In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
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O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
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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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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
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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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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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The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
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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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It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.
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Fear is the underminer of all determinations and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
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