Philip Sidney Quotes

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• Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
• 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…
• Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the…
• The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
• Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
• Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
• My true love hath my heart, and I have his
• A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
• The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
• It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
• Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
• High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.
• 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…
• Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.
• If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it
• **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…
• 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…
• Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.
• 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…
• Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

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