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A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
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Sir Philip Sidney
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We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
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God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.
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Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.
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Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
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A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.
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Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
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Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
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Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.
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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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In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
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There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
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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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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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