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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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• 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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• 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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• Nothing has a letter effect upon children than praise.

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  Children, Letters, Praise

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Thinking nurseth thinking.

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  Thinking

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.12

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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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• Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.

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  Poison, Manhood

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

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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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• To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.

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  Wise, Men, Evil

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

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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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• Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

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  Rays, May, Brightness

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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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• Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

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  Generosity, Giving, Delight

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.130

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