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
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.
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.
agony nurse vices
Vice is but a nurse of agonies.
cutting causes zealous
A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.
greatness despair titles
Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.
self nurse care
Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.