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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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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 better bargain driven.
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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.
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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.
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Eagles we see fly alone; and they are but sheep which always herd together.
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With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies;
How silently, and with how wan a face.
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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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With a tale forsooth he [the poet] cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
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Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as diverse poets have done…her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
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Open suspecting others comes of secret condemning themselves.
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Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to our selves, and nature. Delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
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There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
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There have been many most excellent poets that never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.
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They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
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Poetry therefore, is an art of imitation…that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth to speak metaphorically. A speaking picture, with this end: to teach and delight.
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The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?
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Philip Sidney
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Born:
November 30, 1554
Died:
October 17, 1586
(aged 31)
Bio:
Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier, who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age.
Known for:
Astrophel and Stella
An Apology for Poetry
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
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An Apologie for Poetrie
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