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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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Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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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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To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.
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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
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The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
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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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To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
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Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
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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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