“Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than who aims but at a bush.”

—  Philip Sidney , book The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Book 2, page 253.
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1580)

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