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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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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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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.
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Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.
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But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
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Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.
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High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.
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Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
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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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Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.
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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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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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With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
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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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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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Love, one time, layeth burdens another time, giveth wings.
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