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
blessing benefits action
In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
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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.
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Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
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It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
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...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.
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Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.
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Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
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In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.
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Thinking nurseth thinking.
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It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
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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.
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Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.
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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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Yet sighes, deare sighes, indeeds true friends you are That do not leave your left friend at the wurst, But, as you with my breast, I oft have nurst So, gratefull now, you waite upon my care.