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Philip Sidney Inspirational Quotes (114)

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But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
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In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
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The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.
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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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It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.
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Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.
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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.
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It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
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Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.
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Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
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It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
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Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?
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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.
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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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A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
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Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
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Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.
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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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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
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Love, one time, layeth burdens another time, giveth wings.
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