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> [Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-sidney/reason-cannot-show-itself-more-reasonable-than-to-cease-reasoning-on/)

[Philip Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-sidney/)

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## More by Philip Sidney

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-sidney/laws-are-not-made-like-lime-twigs-or-nets-to-catch-everything-that/)

[Philip Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-sidney/)

> [It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-sidney/it-is-no-less-vain-to-wish-death-than-it-is-cowardly-to-fear-it/)

[Philip Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-sidney/)

> [Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-sidney/whatever-comes-out-of-despair-cannot-bear-the-title-of-valor-which/)

[Philip Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-sidney/)

> [Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-sidney/sweet-speaking-oft-a-currish-heart-reclaims/)

[Philip Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-sidney/)

> [To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-sidney/to-be-ambitious-of-true-honor-and-of-the-real-glory-and-perfection-of/)

[Philip Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-sidney/)

> [He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-sidney/he-travels-safe-and-not-unpleasantly-who-is-guarded-by-poverty-and/)

[Philip Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-sidney/)

> [There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-sidney/there-is-a-certain-delicacy-which-in-yielding-conquers-and-with-a/)

[Philip Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-sidney/)

> [The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-sidney/the-glory-and-increase-of-wisdom-stands-in-exercising-it/)

[Philip Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-sidney/)

> [O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-sidney/o-sweet-woods-the-delight-of-solitariness/)

[Philip Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-sidney/)

> [“Stella, the only planet of my light, Light of my life, and life of my desire, Chief good, whereto my hope doth only aspire,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-sidney/stella-the-only-planet-of-my-light-light-of-my-life-and-life-of-my/)

[Philip Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-sidney/)

> [All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-sidney/all-is-but-lip-wisdom-which-wants-experience/)

[Philip Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-sidney/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-sidney/confidence-in-one-s-self-is-the-chief-nurse-of-magnanimity-which/)

[Philip Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-sidney/)

> [Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-sidney/those-lovers-scorn-whom-that-love-doth-possess-do-they-call-virtue/)

[Philip Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-sidney/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-sidney/it-depends-on-education-that-holder-of-the-keys-which-the-almighty/)

[Philip Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-sidney/)

> [Vice is but a nurse of agonies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-sidney/vice-is-but-a-nurse-of-agonies/)

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