Quote#Money & Wealth
And thou my minde aspire to higher things
Quote byPhilip Sidney · 1554–1586
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Sidney, Sonnet. Leave me, O Love. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23..
English (original)
And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
— Philip Sidney
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