Quotes of Sir John Denham - somelinesforyou

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

- Sir John Denham

“ We may our ends by our beginnings know. ”

- Sir John Denham

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

- Sir John Denham

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

- Sir John Denham

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

- Sir John Denham

“ 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. ”

- Sir John Denham

“ The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see. ”

- Sir John Denham

“ People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. ”

- Sir John Denham

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

- Sir John Denham

“ I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave. ”

- Sir John Denham

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

- Sir John Denham

“ We may our ends by our beginnings know. ”

- Sir John Denham

“ 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. ”

- Sir John Denham

“ I think most MPs now believe the police have made a case for an extension but not necessarily as far as 90 days. It is certainly possible that the government could lose it. ”

- Sir John Denham

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

- Sir John Denham

“ We are never like angels till our passion dies. ”

- Sir John Denham

“ Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair. ”

- Sir John Denham

“ The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see. ”

- Sir John Denham

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

- Sir John Denham

“ I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave. ”

- Sir John Denham

“ The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see. ”

- Sir John Denham

“ Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was. ”

- Sir John Denham

“ I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave. ”

- Sir John Denham

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

- Sir John Denham

“ We are never like angels till our passion dies. ”

- Sir John Denham

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

- Sir John Denham

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

- Sir John Denham

“ People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. ”

- Sir John Denham

“ 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. ”

- Sir John Denham

“ The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see. ”

- Sir John Denham
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