John Denham famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.
-- John Denham

#Life #May #Live Well
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 Denham

#Brother #Kings #Son
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.
-- John Denham

#Men #Civilization #Abuse
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 Denham

#Guilt #Gold #Foam
Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.
-- John Denham

#Years #Age #Lasts
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
-- John Denham

#Pouring #Spirit #Language
When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.
-- John Denham

#Mean #Thinking #Design
Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
-- John Denham

#Men #Age #May
Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.
-- John Denham

#Doubt #Despair #Way
Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
-- John Denham

#Names #Slave #Fame
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.
-- John Denham

#Writing #Fate #Pride
You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.
-- John Denham

#Doubt #Prove #Knows
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 Denham

#Dream #May #Taste
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 Denham

#Ignorance #Light #Sight
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
-- John Denham

#Genius #Ought #Translations
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
-- John Denham

#Book #Reading #Use
Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
-- John Denham

#Knowledge #Trying #Knows
Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger.
-- John Denham

#Anger #Love Is #Worthy
We are never like angels till our passion dies.
-- John Denham

#Angel #Passion #Dies

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