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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
Diplomat
Military Personnel
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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Science
Truth
Things
Wherein
Repose
Centre
Ground
Eternity

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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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Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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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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Love, one time, layeth burdens another time, giveth wings.
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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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Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.
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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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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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Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
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