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Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

Philip Sidney
Beautiful, Ambition, Thinking
Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.81

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 of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court

Philip Sidney
Inspirational, Real, Ambition

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

Philip Sidney
Hate, Ambition, Like Love
Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.81

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