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Sir Philip Sidney Quotes With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face! Sir Philip Sidney My true love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange, one for the other given. I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, There never was a better bargain driven. Sir Philip Sidney Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, Th'indifferent judge between the high and low. Sir Philip Sidney Desire! desire, I have too dearly bought With price of mangled mind thy worthless ware; Sir Philip Sidney Poetry...is...a speaking picture, with this end: to teach and delight. Sir Philip Sidney He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. Sir Philip Sidney They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir Philip Sidney A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger. Sir Philip Sidney A brave captain, is as a root, out of which (as branches) the courage of his soldiers doth spring. A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate. Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them. No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue. Sir Philip Sidney | |