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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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To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.
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Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
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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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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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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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How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!
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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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He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
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Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
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It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
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In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
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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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The first mark of valor is defence.
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A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
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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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Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
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