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• A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

  Philip Sidney

  Courage, Knights, Bravery

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.72

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• Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

  Philip Sidney

  Writing, Heart, Looks

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 1

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• A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.

  Philip Sidney

  Wise, Thinking, Dull

  Sir Philip Sidney, James Hain Friswell (1867). “The Countess of Pembrokes' Arcadia ... With Notes and Introductory Essay by Hain Friswell, Etc”, p.126

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• It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

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  Suicide, Wish, Vain

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

  Philip Sidney

  Education, Flying, Daedalus

  Sir Philip Sidney, William Gray (1860). “The miscellaneous works of Sir Philip Sidney, knt: with a life of the author and illustrative notes”, p.111

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• What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?

  Philip Sidney

  Men, Ancestry, Birth

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.3

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• It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

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  Grace, Prison, Excellent

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.11

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• They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

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  Single, Lonely, Loneliness

  Philip Sidney (1901). “The Sidneys of Penshurst”

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• Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome.

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  Courage, Men, Skills

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.68

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• Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.

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  Wise, Fool, Action

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.47

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• Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

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  Greatness, Air, Should

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• I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.

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  My Own, Warrants, Conscience

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• You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart, Exercise, Age

  Sir Philip Sidney (1929). “AN APOLOGIE FOR POETRIE”, p.100, CUP Archive

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• In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.

  Philip Sidney

  Mind, Virtue, Hiding

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.22

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• 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 to vice, to happiness or misery.

  Philip Sidney

  Education, Keys, Hands

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.178

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• Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.

  Philip Sidney

  Bravery, Advice, Mind

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.7

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• It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.

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  Wish, Delicacy, Womanhood

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.74

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• Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

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  Sweet, Food, Knowledge

  Sir Philip Sidney (1831). “The Defence of Poesy”, p.16

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• Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.

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  Excellence, Doe, Please

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.25

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• In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

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  Blessing, Benefits, Action

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• There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

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  Character, Men, Evil

  Sir Philip Sidney (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

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  Beautiful, Ambition, Thinking

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.81

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• The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.

  Philip Sidney

  Children, Example, Legacy

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• Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

  Philip Sidney

  Gold, Rotten, Dirt

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

  Philip Sidney

  Plato, Light, Essence

  Sir Philip Sidney, Richard Bellings (1724). “The works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, kt. in prose and verse: In three volumes. ...”

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