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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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• 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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• 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.

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  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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• 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.

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  Likes, Virtue, Ill

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

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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.

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  Heaven, World, Virtue

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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.

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  Angel, Kissing, Things I Love

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

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  Issues, Secret, Sound

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

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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.

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  Kings, Heaven, World

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

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• Vice is but a nurse of agonies.

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  Agony, Nurse, Vices

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.19

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

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  Wisdom, Worthy

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