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• High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart, Courtesy

  "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia". Book by Philip Sidney. Book 1, 1590.

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• 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

  Children, Men, Play

  'The Defence of Poesie' (1595)

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• Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

  Philip Sidney

  Giving, Delight, Debt

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• Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

  Philip Sidney

  Desire, Impossible, Unlawful

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.17

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• 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

  Pain, Honor, World

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• A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

  Philip Sidney

  Kindness, Gains, Courtesy

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.106

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• With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies!
  How silently, and with how wan a face!

  Philip Sidney

  Moon, Sky, Faces

  Astrophel and Stella sonnet 31 (1591)

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• O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!

  Philip Sidney

  Sweet, Nature, Solitude

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

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• Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

  Philip Sidney

  Hate, Ambition, Like Love

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.81

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• The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.

  Philip Sidney

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Men

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.54

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• Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

  Philip Sidney

  Men, Vanity, May

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.115

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• Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

  Philip Sidney

  Fear, Past, Men

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.100

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• In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.

  Philip Sidney

  Comfort, Shame, Bounds

  Sir Philip Sidney (1868). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia”, p.123

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• Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

  Philip Sidney

  Perfection, Wit, Knows

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

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• It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

  Philip Sidney

  Happiness, Great Happiness, Praiseworthy

  "Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks".

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• Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

  Philip Sidney

  Doubt, Suspicion, Condemning

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.208

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• He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.

  Philip Sidney

  Passion, Bent

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.87

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• There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

  Philip Sidney

  Evil, Natural

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.136

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• Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

  Philip Sidney

  Sports, Warrior, Flirting

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• He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

  Philip Sidney

  Love, Safe, Poverty

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.162

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• Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.

  Philip Sidney

  Love, Mourning, Bells

  Sir Philip Sidney, William Gray (1829). “The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author and Illustrative Notes”, p.197

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• 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

  Moon, Men, Quality

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• Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart, Eye, Her Beauty

  Sir Philip Sidney (1868). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia”, p.4

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• Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.

  Philip Sidney

  Sea, Law, Ignorant

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

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• Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims.

  Philip Sidney

  Sweet, Heart, Gentleness

  Philip Sidney, Katherine Duncan-Jones (1999). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia)”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

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