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Sir John Denham (1615 - 10 March 1669), poet, son of the Chief Baron of Exchequer in Ireland, was born in Dublin, and educated at Trinity College, Oxford and at Lincoln's Inn in London..

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

Denham, Sir John on ambition
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"We are never like angels till our passion dies."

Denham, Sir John on angels
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"Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid."

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"Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use"

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"Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation."

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

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