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Sir Philip Sidney Quotes

«A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.»
«If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it»
Author: Sir Philip Sidney (Statesman) | About: Work | Keywords: dislike, neglect
«Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea»
Author: Sir Philip Sidney (Statesman) | About: God | Keywords: glad, tea, thank
«Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge»
Author: Sir Philip Sidney (Statesman) | About: Knowledge, Learning | Keywords: serves
«The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.»
Author: Sir Philip Sidney (Statesman) | About: Animals | Keywords: tact
«The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care»
«Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.»
«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, the indifferent judge between the high and low.»
«The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts»
«In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretoken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have the jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow»

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