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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
The first mark of valor is defence.
— Philip Sidney
The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.
— Philip Sidney
Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.
— Philip Sidney
The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury.
— Philip Sidney
Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.
— Philip Sidney
The poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.
— Philip Sidney
I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
— Philip Sidney
There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.
— Philip Sidney
Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.
— Philip Sidney
The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways.
— Philip Sidney
No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
— Philip Sidney
Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
— Philip Sidney
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
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
With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies!How silently, and with how wan a face! — Philip Sidney
The tip no jewel needs to wear:The tip is jewel of the ear. — Philip Sidney
All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
— Philip Sidney
A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
— Philip Sidney
Nothing has a letter effect upon children than praise.
— Philip Sidney
To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
— Philip Sidney
There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.
— Philip Sidney
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
— Philip Sidney
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
— Philip Sidney
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
— Philip Sidney
The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.
— Philip Sidney
A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.
— Philip Sidney
As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.
— Philip Sidney
Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
— Philip Sidney
Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.
— Philip Sidney
There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.
— Philip Sidney
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
— Philip Sidney
Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
— Philip Sidney
Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.
— Philip Sidney
O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
— Philip Sidney
With a sword thou mayest kill thy father, and with a sword thou mayest defend thy prince and country.
— Philip Sidney
Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.
— Philip Sidney
A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
— Philip Sidney
Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.
— Philip Sidney
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.
— Philip Sidney
I am not I; pity the tale of me.
— Philip Sidney
Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
— Philip Sidney
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
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?Do they call virtue there ungratefulness? — Philip Sidney
It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
— Philip Sidney
Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.
— Philip Sidney
Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.
— Philip Sidney
High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.
— Philip Sidney
A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
— Philip Sidney
Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
— Philip Sidney
Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
— Philip Sidney
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
— Philip Sidney
Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
— Philip Sidney
Poetry, a speaking picture ... to teach and delight
— Philip Sidney
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
— Philip Sidney
There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.
— Philip Sidney
And thou my minde aspire to higher things;Grow rich in that which never taketh rust. — Philip Sidney
Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
— Philip Sidney
I now have learn'd Love right, and learn'd even so,As who by being poisoned doth poison know. — Philip Sidney
With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
— Philip Sidney
My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
— Philip Sidney
Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.
— Philip Sidney
In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.
— Philip Sidney
Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses ...
— Philip Sidney
Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
— Philip Sidney
O you virtuous owle,The wise Minerva's only fowle. — Philip Sidney
There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.
— Philip Sidney
I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.
— Philip Sidney
It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
— Philip Sidney
Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.
— Philip Sidney
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
Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.
— Philip Sidney
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
— Philip Sidney
What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!
— Philip Sidney
Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
— Philip Sidney
Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.
— Philip Sidney
Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.
— Philip Sidney
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
— Philip Sidney
It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
— Philip Sidney
