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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
Diplomat
Military Personnel
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
Ambition
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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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For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.
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There is nothing evil but what is within us the rest is either natural or accidental.
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Fool, said my muse to me. Look in thy heart and write.
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As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
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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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They love indeed who quake to say they love.
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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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In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
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My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
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Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.
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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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