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Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
Philip Sidney
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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
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Sir Philip Sidney
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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.
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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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Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
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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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Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
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It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.
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In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
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Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.
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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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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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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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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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In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
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It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.
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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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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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Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.
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My true love hath my heart, and I have his
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What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
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