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Vice is but a nurse of agonies. ~ Philip Sidney
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Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness. ~ Philip Sidney
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What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring? ~ Philip Sidney
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There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets. ~ Philip Sidney
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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot. ~ Philip Sidney
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In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others. ~ Philip Sidney
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We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us. ~ Philip Sidney
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There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking. ~ Philip Sidney
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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action. ~ Philip Sidney
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Who will be taught, if he be not moved with desire to be taught? ~ Philip Sidney
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It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes. ~ Philip Sidney
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Stella, the only planet of my light,
Light of my life, and life of my desire,
Chief good, whereto my hope doth only aspire,
World of my wealth, and heav'n of my delight:
Why dost thou spend the treasure of thy sprite,
With voice more fit to wed Amphion's lyre,
Seeking to quench in me the noble fire
Fed by thy worth, and kindled by thy sight?
And all in vain, for while thy breath most sweet,
With choicest words, thy words with reasons rare,
Thy reasons firmly set on Virtue's feet,
Labor to kill in me this killing care:
Oh, think I then, what paradise of joy
It is, so fair a Virtue to enjoy. ~ Philip Sidney
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The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it. ~ Philip Sidney
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Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust,
And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things!
Grow rich in that which never taketh rust:
Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings.
Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy might
To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be;
Which breaks the clouds, and opens forth the light,
That doth both shine, and give us sight to see. ~ Philip Sidney
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Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful. ~ Philip Sidney
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We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart. ~ Rebecca Harding Davis
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Yet sighes, deare sighes, indeeds true friends you are
That do not leave your left friend at the wurst,
But, as you with my breast, I oft have nurst
So, gratefull now, you waite upon my care. ~ Philip Sidney
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A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate. ~ Philip Sidney
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Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts. ~ Philip Sidney
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The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways. ~ Philip Sidney
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Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries. ~ Philip Sidney
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The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. ~ Philip Sidney
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Great is not great to the greater. ~ Philip Sidney
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Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger. ~ Philip Sidney
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I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues. ~ Philip Sidney
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To know, and by knowledge to lift up the mind from the dungeon of the body to the enjoying his own divine essence ~ Philip Sidney
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Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear. ~ Philip Sidney
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As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly. ~ Philip Sidney
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Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show. ~ Philip Sidney
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Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness. ~ Philip Sidney
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All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience. ~ Philip Sidney
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O that we had, to make our woes more public,
Seas in our eyes, and brazen tongues by nature,
A yelling voice, and hearts composed of sorrow,
Breath made of flames, wits knowing naught but damage,
Our sports murd'ring ourselves, our musics wailing,
Our studies fixed upon the falls of fortune. ~ Philip Sidney
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My true-love hath my heart and I have his,
By just exchange one for the other given:
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss;
There never was a bargain better driven. ~ Philip Sidney
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Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle. ~ Philip Sidney
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Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen. ~ Philip Sidney
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The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable. ~ Philip Sidney
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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. ~ Philip Sidney
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There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass. ~ Philip Sidney
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Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write. ~ Philip Sidney
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Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity. ~ Philip Sidney
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As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him. ~ Philip Sidney
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High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world. ~ Philip Sidney
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So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Dante's Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen. ~ Philip Sidney
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away. ~ Philip Sidney
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Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue. ~ Philip Sidney
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It is not good to wake a sleeping lion. ~ Philip Sidney
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Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker. ~ Philip Sidney
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Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. ~ Philip Sidney
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Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them. ~ Philip Sidney
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Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue. ~ Philip Sidney
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To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens. ~ Philip Sidney
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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger. ~ Philip Sidney
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In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place. ~ Philip Sidney
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For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world. ~ Philip Sidney
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He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love. ~ Philip Sidney
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Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits. ~ Philip Sidney
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The first mark of valor is defence. ~ Philip Sidney
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A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant. ~ Philip Sidney
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In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame. ~ Philip Sidney
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O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness! ~ Philip Sidney
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Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience. ~ Philip Sidney
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Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed; A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed. ~ Philip Sidney
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Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself. ~ Philip Sidney
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Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions. ~ Philip Sidney
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What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine! ~ Philip Sidney
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Swaggering in the coffee-houses and ruffling it in the streets were the men who had sailed with Frobisher and Drake and Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Hawkins, and Sir Richard Granville; had perhaps witnessed the heroic death of Sir Philip Sidney, at Zutphen; had served with Raleigh in Anjou, Picardy, Languedoc, in the Netherlands, in the Irish civil war; had taken part in the dispersion of the Spanish Armada, and in the bombardment of Cadiz; had filled their cups to the union of Scotland with England; had suffered shipwreck on the Barbary Coast, or had, by the fortune of war, felt the grip of the Spanish Inquisition; who could tell tales of the marvels seen in new-found America and the Indies, and, perhaps, like Captain John Smith, could mingle stories of the naive simplicity of the natives beyond the Atlantic, with charming narratives of the wars in Hungary, the beauties of the seraglio of the Grand Turk, and the barbaric pomp of the Khan of Tartary. ~ William Shakespeare
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The poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth. ~ Philip Sidney
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Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life. ~ Philip Sidney
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If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry ... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. ~ Philip Sidney
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Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please. ~ Philip Sidney
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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest. ~ Philip Sidney
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No, no, let us think with consideration, and consider with acknowledging, and acknowledge with admiration, and admire with love, and love with joy in the midst of all woes ; let us in such sort think, I say, that 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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God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded. ~ Philip Sidney
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It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction ~ Philip Sidney
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Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome. ~ Philip Sidney
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The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury. ~ Philip Sidney
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It depends on education
that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands
to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery. ~ Philip Sidney
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With a sword thou mayest kill thy father, and with a sword thou mayest defend thy prince and country. ~ Philip Sidney
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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves. ~ Philip Sidney
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Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency. ~ Philip Sidney
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A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case. ~ Philip Sidney
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Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness. ~ Philip Sidney
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**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo ... A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about life ... ~ Philip Sidney
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Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory. ~ Philip Sidney
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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 of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court ~ Philip Sidney
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~ Philip Sidney
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Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely; her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden. ~ Philip Sidney
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They love indeed who quake to say they love. ~ Philip Sidney
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The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange. ~ Philip Sidney
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Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush. ~ Philip Sidney
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Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason. ~ Philip Sidney
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Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error. ~ Philip Sidney
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The Renaissance did not break completely with mediaeval history and values. Sir Philip Sidney is often considered the model of the perfect Renaissance gentleman. He embodied the mediaeval virtues of the knight (the noble warrior), the lover (the man of passion), and the scholar (the man of learning). His death in 1586, after the Battle of Zutphen, sacrificing the last of his water supply to a wounded soldier, made him a hero. His great sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella is one of the key texts of the time, distilling the author's virtues and beliefs into the first of the Renaissance love masterpieces. His other great work, Arcadia, is a prose romance interspersed with many poems and songs. ~ Ronald Carter
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It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy. ~ Philip Sidney
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Philosophy deals in the abstract and the universal, but not in the particular. History deals only in the particular, not with general principles. Poetry deals with both, illustrating universal principles with particular examples or embodiments of those principles:
Now doth the peerless poet perform both: for whatsoever the philosopher saith should be done, he giveth a perfect picture of it in someone by whom he presupposeth it was done; so as he coupleth the general notion with the particular example.
Another advantage poetry has over philosophy is greater clarity:
the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught. But the poet is the food for the tenderest stomachs, the poet is indeed the right popular philosopher.
Essentially, poetry shows history more brilliantly than history, and explains philosophy more cogently than philosophy. ~ Philip Sidney
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For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught. ~ Philip Sidney
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The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it. ~ Philip Sidney
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Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties. ~ Philip Sidney
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If any sensual weakness arise, we are to yield all our sound forces to the overthrowing of so unnatural a rebellion; wherein how can we want courage, since we are to deal against so feeble an adversary, that in itself is nothing but weakness? Nay, we are to resolve that if reason direct it, we must do it, and if we must do it, we will do it; for to say "I cannot" is childish, and "I will not" is womanish. ~ Philip Sidney
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For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor. ~ Philip Sidney
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