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Famous John Denham Quotes
“Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.”
“Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.”
“Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.”
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham
“Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.”
Source: Poems and Translations: With The Sophy, a Tragedy. Written by the Honourable Sir John Denham, ...
Source: The Poems of Edmund Waller
Source: Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy
“Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.”
“You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.”
“Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.”
Source: The Poems of Edmund Waller
Source: The Poems of Edmund Waller
“Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger.”
Source: Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy
“When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.”
Source: Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy
“Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.”
Source: Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy
“Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.”
Source: The poetical works of Sir John Denham: With the life of the author