Quotes by Sir John Denham

Sir John Denham

Anglo-Irish poet and courtier

Lived from: 1615 - 1669

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagIreland

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  • Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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  • Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
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  • More in prosperity is reason tost than ships in storms, their helms and anchors lost.
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  • Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
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  • Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
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  • Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
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  • We are never like angels till our passion dies.
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