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• Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

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  Courtesy, Natural, Made

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• All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

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  Experience, Want, Lips

  Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.366, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

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  Heart, Courtesy

  "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia". Book by Philip Sidney. Book 1, 1590.

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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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• Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

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  Giving, Delight, Debt

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• Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

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  Desire, Impossible, Unlawful

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.17

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• High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.

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  Pain, Honor, World

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• The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

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  Church, Rich, Poor

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• The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.

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  Wisdom, Exercise, Glory

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

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• True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.

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  Bravery, Quiet

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• Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.

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  Truth, Simple, Men

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• In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.

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  Comfort, Shame, Bounds

  Sir Philip Sidney (1868). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia”, p.123

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• A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

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  Kindness, Gains, Courtesy

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.106

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• With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies!
  How silently, and with how wan a face!

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  Moon, Sky, Faces

  Astrophel and Stella sonnet 31 (1591)

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• O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!

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  Sweet, Nature, Solitude

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

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• Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

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  Hate, Ambition, Like Love

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

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• The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.

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  Forgiveness, Revenge, Men

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.54

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• Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

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  Men, Vanity, May

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.115

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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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  Fear, Past, Men

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.100

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• Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

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  Sports, Warrior, Flirting

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• It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

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  Happiness, Great Happiness, Praiseworthy

  "Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks".

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• Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

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  Perfection, Wit, Knows

  Sir Philip Sidney (1724). “The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse”

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• Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

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  Doubt, Suspicion, Condemning

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.208

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• There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

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  Evil, Natural

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.136

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• Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

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  Vain, Profanity, Betray

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