Philip Sidney quotes - page 2

Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet. (Philip Sidney)
As in geometry, the oblique must be known, as well as the right; and in arithmetic, the odd as well as the even; so in actions of life, who seeth not the filthiness of evil, wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue.
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Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame, Who seek, who hope, who love, who live but thee; Thine eyes my pride, thy lips mine history: If thou praise not, all other praise is shame.
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In the sweetly constituted mind of Sir Philip Sidney, it seems as if no ugly thought or unhandsome meditation could find a harbour. He turned all that he touched into images of honour and virtue.
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Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
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Hard-hearted minds relent and rigor's tears abound, And envy strangely rues his end, in whom no fault was found. Knowledge her light hath lost, valor hath slain her knight, Sidney is dead, dead is my friend, dead is the world's delight.
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Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.
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In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.
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It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll. (Philip Sidney)
....But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay, Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows, And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write."
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In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
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Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
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Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
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Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
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I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
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All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
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It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.
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Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood. (Philip Sidney)
To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
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Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
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The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
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Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.
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