"Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does……" — Philip Sidney
"Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please."
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63 Quotes by Philip Sidney
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
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To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle…
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Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's…
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The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
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Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
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My true love hath my heart, and I have his
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A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
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The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and…
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It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.
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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination…
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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up…
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I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to…
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency…
— Bob Dole
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Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
— Joseph Parker
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But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a…
— Ulrich Beck
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
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Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived…
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them.…
— Thomas Jefferson
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That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their…
— James Madison
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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into…
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