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Philip Sidney Quotes: Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.
         

Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.


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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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It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.



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



Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.



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Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.



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

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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.





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