Philip Sidney Quotes
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.
Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.
Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.
Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.
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.
What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.
It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction
Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.
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.
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange, one for the other given; I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, There never was a better bargain driven.
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.