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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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Kent
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Sir Philip Sidney
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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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What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love but the secret of my friend is not mine!
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It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.
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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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They love indeed who quake to say they love.
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The day seems long, but night is odious no sleep, but dreams no dreams but visions strange.
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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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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 will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?
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The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.
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