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Liking is not always the child of beauty but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.

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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
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Beautiful
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Liking
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Beauty

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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
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Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.
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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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