And thou my minde aspire to higher things;_x000D_ _x000D_ Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
Interpretation
Seek enrichment in intangible qualities rather than material wealth.
In this quote, Philip Sidney emphasizes the importance of aspiring to higher spiritual or intellectual pursuits instead of focusing on the accumulation of material wealth. He suggests that true richness comes from knowledge, wisdom, and virtues that remain valuable beyond the transitory nature of physical possessions.
In practice
In a graduation speech emphasizing personal growth, this quote could inspire graduates to seek knowledge over material success.
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Danteβs Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.
If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.
Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to understand that a silence that is not clamorous with vexation and worried self-regard can become part of the texture of your mind, can seep into you, moment by moment, and gradually change you.
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing. And things you know before you hear them β those are you, those are why you are in the world.
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