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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
Judgment
Upon
Matter
World
Stands
Fortune

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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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Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
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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 the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
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True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
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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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It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.
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He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
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In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
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Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
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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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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.
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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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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
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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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