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

John Denham

Of Prudence, line 225.

Youth , Age

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

John Denham

Of Prudence (1668), line 83.

Wisdom , Books

“Search not to find how other men offend,
But by that glass thy own offences mend;
Still seek to learn, yet care not much from whom,
(So it be learning) or from whence it come.
Of thy own actions, others' judgments learn;
Often by small, great matters we discern:
Youth what man's age is like to be doth show;
We may our ends by our beginnings know.”

John Denham

Source: Of Prudence (1668), line 225

Search , Learning , Youth , Age