Philip Sidney

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Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.


— Philip Sidney


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Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.


— Philip Sidney


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It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.


— Philip Sidney


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


— Philip Sidney


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


— Philip Sidney


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


— Philip Sidney


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The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.


— Philip Sidney


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Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.


— Philip Sidney


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Either I will find a way, or I will make one.


— Philip Sidney


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Mary Sidney who upon her marriage became the Countess of Pembroke was a writer translator and literary patron. In 1583 he married Frances teenage daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham. The work enjoyed great popularity for more than a century after its publication.

Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet courtier and soldier and is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan Age.