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.
In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.
Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.
And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life.
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