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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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Sweetly
Conceit
Hath
Properly
Equally

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Love, one time, layeth burdens another time, giveth wings.
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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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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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Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves and the higher they be, the less they should show.
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Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
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Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
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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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Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.
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My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
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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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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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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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Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
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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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What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love but the secret of my friend is not mine!
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Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
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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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Fool, said my muse to me. Look in thy heart and write.
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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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