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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
Philip Sidney
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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
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Sir Philip Sidney
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Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.
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What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
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As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
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Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.
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Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves and the higher they be, the less they should show.
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Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
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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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Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.
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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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Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
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Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
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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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