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• The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

  Philip Sidney

  Pain, Life And Death, Monsters

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• A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.

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  Leadership, Veterans Day, Spring

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

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• My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.

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  Issues, Secret, Sound

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

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• Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

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  Victory, Trifling, Trifles

  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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• It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

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  Reading, Government, Gathering

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

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• As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

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  Heaven, World, Virtue

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• Vice is but a nurse of agonies.

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  Agony, Nurse, Vices

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

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• I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

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  Likes, Virtue, Ill

  Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.30, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

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  Men, Faults, Virtue

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

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• Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.

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  Madness, Said

  Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Babington Macaulay (2010). “English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

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  Wisdom, Worthy

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• Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.

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  Divine, Strikers, Senses

  Sir Philip Sidney, Richard Dutton (2002). “Selected Writings”, p.128, Taylor & Francis

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• Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.

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  Art, Eye, Evil

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• It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

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  Sympathy, Affliction, Sparks

  Sir Philip Sidney (1724). “The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse”, p.774

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• Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.

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  Practice, Occupation, Dull

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.15

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• There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.

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  Fear, My Friends, Disdain

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.192

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• ...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

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  Poet, Never Lie

  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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• So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Dante’s Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.

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  War, Teaching, Heaven

  Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Babington Macaulay (2010). “English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.

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  Heart, Adversity, Tree

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• Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed; A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.

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  Sweet, Sleep, Light

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 39

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• They love indeed who quake to say they love.

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  Life, Love Life, Quake

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 54

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• For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

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  Greatness, Quality, Goodness

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.18

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• What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!

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  Secret, Life Is, Secrecy

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.195

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• The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

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  Kings, Heaven, World

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.174

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• Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.

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  Judging, Mind, Dueling

  Philip Sidney, Katherine Duncan-Jones (1999). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia)”, p.344, Oxford University Press, USA

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