Proverbs from Philip Sidney
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- A135 ALL is but lip wisdom that wants experience
- A228 Never less ALONE than when alone (He is never alone who is accompanied with noble thoughts)
- A310 In the APRIL of one's age
- A335 It is ART to hide art
- B8 To look BABIES in another's eyes
- B202 As busy as a BEE
- D158 To rhyme to DEATH, as they do rats in Ireland
- D571 He that casts all DOUBTS shall never be resolved
- E7 EAGLES fly alone
- F133 FEAR gives wings
- G426 To be married rather to one's GRAVE
- H49 My better HALF
- H170 To be able to do HARM and not to do it is noble
- H274 To thrust out (in) by the HEAD and shoulders
- I17 IGNORANCE is the mother of devotion
- I77 To smell of the INKHORN
- J66 JOHN-A-NOKES and John-a-Stiles
- J85 No JOY without annoy
- L317 Wake not a sleeping LION
- M1115 He will shoot higher that shoots at the MOON (sun) than he who aims at the tree
- M1308 A MULTITUDE of people is a beast of many heads
- P176 As long as a Welsh PEDIGREE
- P194 He thinks his PENNY (farthing, halfpenny) good silver
- P451 POETS are born but orators are made
- R156 To kiss the ROD
- S25 To set up his SAIL to (To sail with) every wind
- W42 He that makes a good WAR makes a good peace
- W301 Stay a WHILE (a little) that we may make an end the sooner
- W416 He catches the WIND in a net
- W889 We weeping come into the WORLD and weeping hence we go