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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
  By just exchange, one for the other given;
  I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
  There never was a better bargain driven.

  Philip Sidney

  Life, Heart, Missing

  'The Arcadia' (1590) bk. 3

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

  Philip Sidney

  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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• 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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• **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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• In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

  Philip Sidney

  Love, Heart, Yellow

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

  Philip Sidney

  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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• 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.

  Philip Sidney

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

  Philip Sidney

  Secret, Life Is, Secrecy

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

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• Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely; her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.

  Philip Sidney

  Sweet, Flower, Rivers

  Philip Sidney, Geoffrey Shepherd, R.W. Maslen (2002). “An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition”, p.85, Manchester University Press

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

  Philip Sidney

  Practice, Occupation, Dull

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

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

  Philip Sidney

  Men, Faults, Virtue

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

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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.

  Philip Sidney

  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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