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We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!

— Jane Porter Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

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Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

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)

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

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