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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.

  Philip Sidney

  Greatness, Quality, Goodness

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

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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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• When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem of war; wherein a man can err but once!

  Philip Sidney

  Spring, War, Men

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

  Philip Sidney

  Daughter, Mother, Sin

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

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

  Philip Sidney

  Wisdom, Worthy

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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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• 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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• ...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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