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Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
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Novelist
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Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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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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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
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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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**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo....A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about life.
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Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
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What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
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Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.
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Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.
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It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.
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Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
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How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!
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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
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The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?
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We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
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