221 Quotes by Philip Sidney

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

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.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.