Sir John Denham Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by Sir John Denham on topics like ends, forbid, deeply

  • Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

    — Sir John Denham on ambition
    4
  • We are never like angels till our passion dies.

    — Sir John Denham on angels
    3
  • Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

    — Sir John Denham on reading
    2
  • Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

    — Sir John Denham on knowledge
    1
  • Youth, what man's age is like to be, does show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

    — Sir John Denham on youth
    0
  • Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

    — Sir John Denham on translation
    0
  • About Sir John Denham

    Name Sir John Denham
    Quotes 6 quotations
    Birthday October 16
    Top topics ends, forbid, deeply, search, rivals

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