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
knowledge rust rich
And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
perfection wit knows
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
virtue servant willing
We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
single lonely loneliness
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
scoffing
...scoffing cometh not of wisdom...
divine strikers senses
...music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses...
greatness greater
Great is not great to the greater.
true-friend care breasts
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.
sorrow violence firsts
The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.
madness said
Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.
suicide majesty captains
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.
heart yellow done
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.
judging may clemency
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
reason shows cease
Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.