All Quotes by John Denham
“Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.”
“Actions o' th' last age are like almanacks o' th' last year.”
“Ambition is like love, impatientBoth of delays and rivals.”
“Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,That few but such as cannot write, translate.”
“Nor ought a genius less than his that writAttempt translation.”
“That servile path thou nobly dost declineTrue to his sense, but truer to his fame.”
“Books should to one of these four ends conduce,For wisdom, piety, delight, or use.”
“Youth, what man's age is like to be doth show,We may our ends by our beginnings know.”
“Search not to find what lies too deeply hid,Nor to know things, whose knowledge is forbid.”