Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... desire to have every copy , however minute , of his ever - graceful and truly " peerless " mind.— His thoughts , as they flowed from a source of as pure virtue as can belong to human na- ture , could not be different from their foun ...
... desire to have every copy , however minute , of his ever - graceful and truly " peerless " mind.— His thoughts , as they flowed from a source of as pure virtue as can belong to human na- ture , could not be different from their foun ...
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... desire ́ , to do well , the inward light each mind hath in itself is as good as a philosopher's book ; since in nature we know that it is well to do well , and what is good and what is evil , although not in the words of art , which ...
... desire ́ , to do well , the inward light each mind hath in itself is as good as a philosopher's book ; since in nature we know that it is well to do well , and what is good and what is evil , although not in the words of art , which ...
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... desire to know , -hoc opus , hic labor est . 10 . Some busy themselves so much about their pleasures , that they can ... desires , our thoughts , and our actions , towards the attainment of those honours which embellish civilized society ...
... desire to know , -hoc opus , hic labor est . 10 . Some busy themselves so much about their pleasures , that they can ... desires , our thoughts , and our actions , towards the attainment of those honours which embellish civilized society ...
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... extraordinary desert requires an extraor- dinary proceeding . 27 . Having nothing but just desires , we need not mistrust their justifying . 28 . Virtue seeks to satisfy others . VOL . I. Remark . It is indeed a lamentable truth , that 25.
... extraordinary desert requires an extraor- dinary proceeding . 27 . Having nothing but just desires , we need not mistrust their justifying . 28 . Virtue seeks to satisfy others . VOL . I. Remark . It is indeed a lamentable truth , that 25.
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... ; and where reason and other serious principles are not in- vested with supreme authority , they expose us to the anarchy of unlawful desires . There are many instances of men being betrayed into habits of profligacy 29.
... ; and where reason and other serious principles are not in- vested with supreme authority , they expose us to the anarchy of unlawful desires . There are many instances of men being betrayed into habits of profligacy 29.
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Page 216 - Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness ; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Page 85 - But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
Page 5 - This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling of judgment, and enlarging of conceit, which commonly we call learning, under what name soever it come forth, or to what immediate end soever it be directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls made worse by their clayey lodgings can be capable of.
Page 23 - Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one. Now, as in Geometry the oblique must be known as well as the right, and in Arithmetic the odd as well as the even, so in the actions of our life who seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue.
Page 13 - Nay truly, learned men have learnedly thought that where once reason hath so much overmastered passion as that the mind hath a free desire to do well, the inward light each mind hath in itself is as good as a philosopher's book...
Page 189 - Celestial Happiness, whene'er she stoops To visit earth, one shrine the goddess finds, And one alone, to make her sweet amends For absent heaven the bosom of a friend ; Where heart meets heart, reciprocally soft, Each other's pillow to repose divine.
Page 109 - Use moderate diet, so as, after your meat, you may find your wit fresher, and not duller, and your body more lively, and not more heavy. Seldom drink wine, and yet sometimes do, lest being enforced to drink upon the sudden, you should find yourself inflamed.
Page 120 - ... stratagems; for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared; and there are thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits. It is therefore to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness; and that vice is the natural consequence of narrow thoughts, that it begins in mistake,...
Page 6 - But when by the balance of experience it was found that the astronomer looking to the stars might fall into a ditch, that the inquiring philosopher might be blind in himself, and the mathematician might draw forth a straight line with a crooked heart, then, lo, did proof, the overruler of opinions, make manifest that all these are but serving sciences, which, as they have...
Page 83 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.