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Philip Sidney [1554-1586] English

Rank: 102
Poet (with poems), Poet

Renaissance, Elizabethan, Sonnet

Sir Philip Sidney was 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.

Great, Happiness, Health, Motivational, Nature, Poetry, Strength

Quote	Tags	Rank
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.	Motivational	101
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.	Great, Health	102
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.		103
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.	Nature	104
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.		105
Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.		106
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.	Strength	107
Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.		108
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.		109
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.	Happiness	110
If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.	Poetry	111
The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.		112
For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.		113

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