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If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.

~Philip Sidney

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For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.

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Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Soldier

Born: November 30th, 1554

Died: October 17th, 1586

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