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Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

Philip Sidney

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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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.

Philip Sidney

Kings, Heaven, World

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

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

Philip Sidney

Giving, Soldier, Battle

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

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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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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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**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo....A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about life.

Philip Sidney

Angel, Kissing, Things I Love

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

Philip Sidney

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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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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Vice is but a nurse of agonies.

Philip Sidney

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.

Philip Sidney

Likes, Virtue, Ill

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

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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.

Philip Sidney

Fear, My Friends, Disdain

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

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

Philip Sidney

Art, Eye, Evil

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

Philip Sidney

Wisdom, Worthy

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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.

Philip Sidney

Reading, Government, Gathering

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

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O you virtuous owle,
The wise Minerva's only fowle.

Philip Sidney

Wise, Minerva, Virtuous

Sir Philip Sidney (1873). “The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney ...”, p.177

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Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

Philip Sidney

Laughter, Joy, Delight

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

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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.

Philip Sidney

Heaven, World, Virtue

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

Philip Sidney

Issues, Secret, Sound

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

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

Philip Sidney

Divine, Strikers, Senses

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

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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.

Philip Sidney

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.

Philip Sidney

Sweet, Sleep, Light

'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 39

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They love indeed who quake to say they love.

Philip Sidney

Life, Love Life, Quake

'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 54

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The tip no jewel needs to wear:
The tip is jewel of the ear.

Philip Sidney

Jewels, Needs, Ears

Sir Philip Sidney (1725). “The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse”, p.249

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Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.

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Daughter, Mother, Sin

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

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There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

Philip Sidney

Strong, Glasses, Opinion

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.2

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Born: November 30, 1554
Died: October 17, 1586
Occupation: Poet
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