Scorn the cruel wrinkle of the tyrant brow, like he did

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He that dares to die,

May laugh at the grim face of law, and scorn

The cruel wrinkle of a tyrant brow.

 

-- John Denham

 

[Trump's] needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. 

 

-- Charles Krauthammer

 

[The tyrant] has desires which he is utterly unable to satisfy, and has more wants than any one, and is truly poor, if you know how to inspect the whole soul of him.

 

 -- Plato, Republic, Book IX 

 

 

Tell how learning shoots

 Tell like a tall old oak how learning shoots

To heav'n her branches, to hell her roots.

 

-- John Denham 

Salvation for Narcissus

 

 The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear,

That, had the self-enamour'd youth gaz'd here,

He but the bottom, not his face, had seen.

 

-- John Denham 

You will tire of living life to the full

  

 Satiety from all things else doth come,

Then life must to itself grow wearisome.

-- John Denham

When the cosmos chases its tail

When, like a bridegroom from the east, the sun

Sets forth; he thither, whence he came, doth run.

 

-- John Denham

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth

 

 

When pronouncing sentence, seem not glad;

such spectacles, though they are just, are sad.

-- John Denham

Scrutinous, like The Ancient of Days

 

  Age is froward, uneasy, scrutinous,
Hard to be pleas'd, and parsimonious.

-- John Denham

A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him . . . the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

-- Daniel 7:10

He who borrows to give is no liberal

Such moderation with thy bounty join,

That thou may'st nothing give that is not thine;

That liberality is but cast away,

Which makes us borrow what we cannot pay.

-- John Denham

The fruits presented to old age

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not from grey hairs authority doth flow,

Nor from bald heads, nor from a wrinkled brow;

But our past life, when virtuously spent,

Must to our age those happy fruits present.

-- John Denham

The rich offender

 

 

 

 

So like a fly the poor offender dies;

But like the wasp, the rich escapes and flies.

-- Denham

'Tis better if religion come to reform us, than ruin come to do it

Hohlbein, Totentanz

 

 

 

May no such storm

Fall on our times,

where ruin must reform.

-- John Denham (1615-1669)

The vanity of study

Robert Graves c. 1941

 

 

 

Yet vainly most their age in study spend;

No end of writing books, and to no end.

-- John Denham

The blindness of total depravity

 

 

Nor can we call it choice, when what we chuse,

Folly and blindness only could refuse.

-- John Denham (1615-1669)