Almanacs Quotes by John Denham

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John Denham has 10 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser…
• The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among…
• Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth…
• 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.

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