John Denham Quotes

#1. Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

John Denham

#2. Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

John Denham

#3. Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

John Denham

#4. Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger.

John Denham

#5. The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

John Denham

#6. Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

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#7. You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

John Denham

#8. When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

John Denham

#9. Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

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#10. But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.

John Denham

#11. Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

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#12. Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.

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#13. Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

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#14. Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

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#15. Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too;
To live and die is all we have to do.

John Denham

#16. It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too,.

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#17. Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

John Denham

#18. Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

John Denham