Quote

And thou my minde aspire to higher things Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.

Philip Sidney

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
Military Personnel
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
Higher
Grows
Rich
Knowledge
Things
Rust
Never
Aspire
Thou
Grow

More quotes by Philip Sidney

Image
God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.
Philip Sidney
Image
The first mark of valor is defence.
Philip Sidney
Image
Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
Philip Sidney
Image
All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
Philip Sidney
Image
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
Image
The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.
Philip Sidney
Image
Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
Philip Sidney
Image
It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.
Philip Sidney
Image
Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
Philip Sidney
Image
O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
Philip Sidney
Image
It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
Philip Sidney
Image
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.
Philip Sidney
Image
My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
Philip Sidney
Image
Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
Philip Sidney
Image
In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
Philip Sidney
Image
Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
Philip Sidney
Image
Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.
Philip Sidney
Image
Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
Philip Sidney
Image
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
Philip Sidney
Image
Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
Philip Sidney