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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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A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
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A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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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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Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
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What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
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The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.
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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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