Philip Sidney
Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidneywas an English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier, who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include Astrophel and Stella, The Defence of Poesy, and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 November 1554
comfort shame bounds
In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.
virtue servant willing
We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
mother daughter sin
Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
injury valiant dare
The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury.
too-much valor
Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
scoffing
...scoffing cometh not of wisdom...
sweet nature solitude
O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
lovers virtue scorn
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
heaven world virtue
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.
world matter judgment
The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.
issues secret woe
My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
wisdom worthy
What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
virtue
In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
likes virtue ill
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.