1615-1668, British Poet, Dramatist
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Sir John Denham – [Ambition]
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Sir John Denham – [Books and Reading]
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
Sir John Denham – [Translation]
Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
Sir John Denham – [Knowledge]
We are never like angels till our passion dies.
Sir John Denham – [Angels]
Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
Sir John Denham – [Youth]