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Quotes from Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks — Jane Porter

1775–1850 England

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Imparting knowledge, is only lighting other men’s candle at our lamp, without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

Happiness is not perfected till it is shared.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

The virtues, like the muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

How different is...the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity!

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes; she is confounded at her own presence, and covered with confusion of face.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

It depends on education (that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands) to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

A cheerful temper spreads like the dawn, and all vapors disperse before it. Even the tear dries on the cheek, and the sigh sinks away half-breathed when the eye of benignity beams upon the unhappy.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs. Anacreon himself declares that "the flowers swim at the top of the bowl!"

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jane Porter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.