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• Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.

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  Truth, Eternity, Type

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

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  Gold, Rotten, Dirt

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

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

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  Children, Example, Legacy

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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.

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  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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• Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.

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  Long, Use, Captains

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• Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

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  Silence, Slides, Silent

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• Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.

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  Men, Errors, Remember

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.1

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• Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.

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  Party, Love Is, Self

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

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• 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 to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court

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  Inspirational, Real, Ambition

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• Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.

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  Friendship, Benefits, Made

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.190

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• With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

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  Children, Men, Play

  'The Defence of Poesie' (1595)

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• Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

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  Reason, Shows, Cease

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• For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

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  Mind, World, Tongue

  Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.155, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.

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  Judging, May, Clemency

  Philip Sidney, Katherine Duncan-Jones (1999). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia)”, p.341, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.

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  Confusion, Matter, Causes

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

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• He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.

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  Passion, Bent

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.87

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• Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.

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  Love, Mourning, Bells

  Sir Philip Sidney, William Gray (1829). “The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author and Illustrative Notes”, p.197

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• The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

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  Sorrow, Violence, Firsts

  Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.256, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

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  Virtue, Servant, Willing

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.19

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• Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.

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  Strong, Men, Idols

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• The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.

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  World, Matter, Judgment

  Sir Philip Sidney (1725). “The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse”, p.178

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• How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!

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  Blow, Rumor, Substance

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• Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

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  Courtesy, Natural, Made

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• There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.

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  Self, Looks, Delicacy

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

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