John Denham Quotes
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.
- Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
- Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
- Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
- We are never like angels till our passion dies.
- Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
- Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.