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• Actions o' th' last age are like almanacks o' th' last year.
  • The Sophy: A Tragedy, Act I, scene ii (1642)

• Ambition is like love, impatient
  Both of delays and rivals.
  • The Sophy: A Tragedy, Act I, scene ii

• Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
  That few but such as cannot write, translate.
  • To Sir Richard Fanshaw, Upon his Translation of Pastor Fido, line 1 (1648)

• Nor ought a genius less than his that writ
  Attempt translation.
  • To Sir Richard Fanshaw, Upon his Translation of Pastor Fido, line 9

• Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
  For wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
  • Of Prudence, line 83 (1668)

• Youth, what man's age is like to be doth show,
  We may our ends by our beginnings know.
  • Of Prudence, line 225

• Search not to find what lies too deeply hid,
  Nor to know things, whose knowledge is forbid.
  • Of Prudence, line 231

• 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.
  • Cooper's Hill, Line 165.

• Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream
  My great example, as it is my theme!
  Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull;
  Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.
  • Cooper's Hill, Line 189.

• 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.
  • On Mr. John Fletcher's Works. Compare: "Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill", Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Prologues (republished in Dramatic Works, 1739); "Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne", Alexander Pope, Prologue to the Satires, line 197.

Misattributed

• We're ne'er like angels till our passion dies.
  • Not by Denham, as often stated, but by Thomas Dekker. It is in his The Honest Whore Part 2, Act I, scene 2