Sir John Denham quotes

" Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. " # Ambition # Freedom # Power

" Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more. " # Books - Reading

" We are never like angels till our passion dies. " # Angels # Freedom # Power

" Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid. " # Knowledge # Age and Aging # Happiness

" Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. " # Books - Reading # Wisdom # Writers and Writing

" Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. " # Translation # Action # Genius

" Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know. " # Youth

" The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. " # Children # Education # Learning

" Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. " # Books - Reading # Teachers and Teaching # Excellence

" When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air. " # Decisions # Death and Dying # Health