John Denham Quotes

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.

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger.

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.

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

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

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

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.

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

We may our ends by our beginnings know.