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Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.
Topic: Action
Author: Sir John Denham
Human beings must have action, and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Topic: Action
Author: Sir John Denham
Nothing happens until something moves.
Topic: Action
Author: Sir John Denham
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Topic: Action
Author: Sir John Denham
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Topic: Ambition
Author: Sir John Denham
'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 Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.
Topic: Corruption
Author: Sir John Denham
Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.
Topic: Despair
Author: Sir John Denham
Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.
Topic: Despair
Author: Sir John Denham
Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair.
Topic: Doubt
Author: Sir John Denham
You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.
Topic: Doubt
Author: 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.
Topic: Doubt
Author: Sir John Denham
Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
Topic: Fame
Author: Sir John Denham
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Author: 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.
Topic: Poets
Author: Sir John Denham
The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.
Topic: Sight
Author: Sir John Denham
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.
Topic: Thames River
Author: Sir John Denham
Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
Topic: Youth
Author: Sir John Denham
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