"Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide…" — Philip Sidney
"Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away."
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63 Quotes by Philip Sidney
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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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There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will…
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We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.
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What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads…
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Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
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Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.
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These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest,…
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There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best…
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The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want…
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Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.
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The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws.
— Alexander Hamilton
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