John Denham quotes
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“Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.”
-- John DenhamSource : Sir John Denham (1779). “The poetical works of Sir John Denham: With the life of the author”
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“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 needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.”
-- John DenhamSource : John Denham, “On Mr. John Fletcher's Works”
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“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 the foundations of civilization.”
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“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 not his bottom, but survey his shore.”
-- John DenhamSource : John Denham, “Cooper's Hill”
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“Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.”
-- John DenhamSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 6-9, The Sophy, A Tragedy, 1922.
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“Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.”
-- John DenhamSource : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller”, p.166
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“When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.”
-- John DenhamSource : Sir John Denham (1709). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.150
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“Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.”
-- John DenhamSource : 'Of Prudence' l. 225
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“Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.”
-- John DenhamSource : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.224
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“Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.”
-- John DenhamSource : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller”, p.115
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“Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.”
-- John DenhamSource : 'To Richard Fanshaw' (1648)
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“You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.”
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“Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.”
-- John DenhamSource : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller”, p.111
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“Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.”
-- John DenhamSource : Sir John Denham (1751). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.108
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“Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.”
-- John DenhamSource : Sir John Denham (1709). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.114
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“Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.”
-- John DenhamSource : Sir John Denham (1719). “Poems and Translations: With The Sophy, a Tragedy. Written by the Honourable Sir John Denham, ...”, p.94
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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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“Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger.”
-- John DenhamSource : Sir John Denham (1709). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.301
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“We are never like angels till our passion dies.”
-- John Denham
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