| 17 Famous Quotes by Sir John Denham
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“Who fears not to do ill fears the name,
And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.”
Fame Quotes Source: Cooper's Hill (l. 129)
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“Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.”
Action Quotes Source: The Sophy--A Tragedy
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“Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they
cannot find it.”
Action Quotes Source: The Sophy--A Tragedy
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“Nothing happens until something moves.”
Action Quotes Source: The Sophy--A Tragedy
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“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees
results.”
Action Quotes Source: The Sophy--A Tragedy
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“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.”
Poets Quotes Source: Cooper's Hill
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“Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.”
Despair Quotes Source: Essay on Vergil's Aeneid
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“Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.”
Despair Quotes Source: Essay on Vergil's Aeneid
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“Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show;
We may our ends by our beginnings know.”
Youth Quotes Source: Of Prudence (l. 225)
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“'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.”
Corruption Quotes Source: Progress of Learning
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“Uncertain ways unsafest are,
And doubt a greater mischief than despair.”
Doubt Quotes Source: Cooper's Hill (l. 399)
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“You prove but too clearly that seeking to know
Is too frequently learning to doubt.
[Fr., Vous ne prouvez que trop que chercher a connaitre
N'est souvent qu' apprendre a douter.]”
Doubt Quotes Source: Cooper's Hill (l. 399)
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“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.”
Doubt Quotes Source: Cooper's Hill (l. 399)
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“The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he
Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.”
Sight Quotes Source: in Todd's "Johnson"
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“O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream
My great example, as it is my theme;
Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull;
Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.”
Thames river Quotes Source: Cooper's Hill (l. 189)
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“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”
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“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”
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Sir John Denham Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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