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The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.

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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
World
Stands
Fortune
Judgment
Upon
Matter

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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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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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What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
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In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
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O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
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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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Fool, said my muse to me. Look in thy heart and write.
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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.
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The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.
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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
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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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Love, one time, layeth burdens another time, giveth wings.
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He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
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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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To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
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Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.
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In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
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