Quotes by Sir John Denham

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• Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

  ― Sir John Denham
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• Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

  ― Sir John Denham
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• More in prosperity is reason tost than ships in storms, their helms and anchors lost.

  ― Sir John Denham
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• Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

  ― Sir John Denham
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• Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

  ― Sir John Denham
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• Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

  ― Sir John Denham
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• We are never like angels till our passion dies.

  ― Sir John Denham
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Subjects in these quotes:

• translation
• beginnings
• delight
• anchors
• attempt
• passion

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