John Denham
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.Collection: Wisdom
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.Collection: Poetry
The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.Collection: Men
Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.Collection: Years
When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.Collection: Mean
Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.Collection: Men
Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.Collection: Names
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.Collection: Writing
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.Collection: Genius
Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.Collection: Doubt
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.Collection: Dream
We are never like angels till our passion dies.Collection: Angel
You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.Collection: Doubt
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.Collection: Ignorance
Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.Collection: Knowledge
Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.Collection: Gold
Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger.Collection: Anger
But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.Collection: Brother
It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.Collection: Territory