Philip Sidney Quotes

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Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.

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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.

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In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.

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The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

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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.

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Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.

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Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.

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It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.

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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

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The poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

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Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.

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There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.

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Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

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There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

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In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.

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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.

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It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

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Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.

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There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

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Dumb swans, not chattering pies, do lovers prove;
They love indeed who quake to say they love.

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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.

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I never drank of Aganippe well,
Nor ever did in shade of Tempe sit.

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The historian…loaden with old mouse-eaten records, authorizing himself (for the most part) upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay; having much ado to accord differing writers and to pick truth out of partiality; better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with the present age, and yet better knowing how this world goeth than how his own wit runneth; curious for antiquities and inquisitive of novelties; a wonder to young folks and a tyrant in table talk, denieth, in a great chafe, that any man for teaching of virtue, and virtuous actions is comparable to him.

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And thou my minde aspire to higher things;
Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.

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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.

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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.

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Ring out your bells! Let mourning shows be spread! For Love is dead.

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Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life.

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High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

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