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• There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.

  Philip Sidney

  Thinking, Giving, World

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• The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.

  Philip Sidney

  Envy, House, Inward

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• Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.

  Philip Sidney

  Wife, Desire, Firsts

  Sir Philip Sidney (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)”, p.371, Delphi Classics

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• Yet sighes, deare sighes, indeeds true friends you are
  That do not leave your left friend at the wurst,
  But, as you with my breast, I oft have nurst
  So, gratefull now, you waite upon my care.

  Philip Sidney

  True Friend, Care, Breasts

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• Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.

  Philip Sidney

  Determination, Law, Rebel

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

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• It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.

  Philip Sidney

  War, Cruelty, Conquest

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• Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

  Philip Sidney

  Appreciation, Giving, Tribute

  Sir Philip Sidney (1868). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia”, p.368

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• Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

  Philip Sidney

  Men, Solitude, Enemy

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• If any sensual weakness arise, we are to yield all our sound forces to the overthrowing of so unnatural a rebellion; wherein how can we want courage, since we are to deal against so feeble an adversary, that in itself is nothing but weakness? Nay, we are to resolve that if reason direct it, we must do it, and if we must do it, we will do it; for to say "I cannot" is childish, and "I will not" is womanish.

  Philip Sidney

  Yield, Sensual, Weakness

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• Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.

  Philip Sidney

  Self, Nurse, Care

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• God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.

  Philip Sidney

  Suicide, Majesty, Captains

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.151

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• Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

  Philip Sidney

  Scoffing

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

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• Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
  Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

  Philip Sidney

  Lovers, Virtue, Scorn

  Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.180, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.

  Philip Sidney

  Cutting, Zealous, Causes

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.71

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• Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.

  Philip Sidney

  Greatness, Despair, Able

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.151

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• In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.

  Philip Sidney

  Virtue

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

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• But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
  
  Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows;
  
  And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
  
  Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
  
  Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
  
  "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.

  Philip Sidney

  Children, Writing, Heart

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 1

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• The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury.

  Philip Sidney

  Injury, Valiant, Dare

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• As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are not to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious.

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  Growing Up, Exercise, Men

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.144

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• And thou my minde aspire to higher things;
  Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.

  Philip Sidney

  Knowledge, Rust, Rich

  Certain Sonnets no. 32, l. 1 (written 1577 - 1581)

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• As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.

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  Giving, Soldier, Battle

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.101

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• Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

  Philip Sidney

  Misery, Fortune, Misfortunes

  Sir Philip Sidney (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)”, p.396, Delphi Classics

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• Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?

  Philip Sidney

  Wise, Giving, Advice

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.179

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• A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.

  Philip Sidney

  Tyrants, License

  Sir Philip Sidney, James Hain Friswell (1867). “The Countess of Pembrokes' Arcadia ... With Notes and Introductory Essay by Hain Friswell, Etc”, p.158

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• No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.

  Philip Sidney

  Affection

  Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.422, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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