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For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

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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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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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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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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
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It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
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He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
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It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.
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Fool, said my muse to me. Look in thy heart and write.
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The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?
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Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
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Liking is not always the child of beauty but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
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Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.
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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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Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves and the higher they be, the less they should show.
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