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
character men evil
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.
men ancestry birth
What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
men action goodness
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
education hands keys
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.
heart exercise age
You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.
sea law ignorant
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.
confusion matter causes
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.
death done said
To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
children heart writing
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.
love mourning bells
Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
angel kissing things-i-love
**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo....A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about life....
giving debt delight
Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.
fear my-friends disdain
There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
heart courtesy
High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.