Philip Sidney Quotes - Page 2

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.

I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.

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 is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.

Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

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.

In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.

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.

It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.

Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.

Nothing has a letter effect upon children than praise.

Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.