John Denham: End

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John Denham: 36 quotes0 likes

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

Of Prudence, line 225.

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

Of Prudence (1668), line 83.

“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.”

Source: Of Prudence (1668), line 225