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Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.

Philip Sidney
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Philip Sidney's Popular Quotes

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

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Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.

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Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

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My true love hath my heart, and I have his

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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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In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.

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To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious o…

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

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If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

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