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Quotes by Sir John Denham
It is better to wear out than to rust out. BISHOP CUMBERLAND. See Horne's Sermon-On the Duty of Contending for the Truth. Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.— filed under Action
The spring, like youth, fresh blossoms doth produce, But autumn makes them ripe and fit for use: So Age a mature mellowness doth set On the green promises of youthful heat.— filed under Affliction
Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use.— filed under Books
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.— filed under Character
Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair.— filed under Doubt
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.— filed under Example
S. Who fears not to do ill yet fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.— filed under Fame
Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do. aa,— filed under Life
I can no more believe old Homer blind, Than those who say the sun hath never shined; The age wherein he lived was dark, but he Could not want sight who taught the world to see.— filed under Poets
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.— filed under Poets
Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.— filed under Wrongs