Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Creech

Explore popular quotes and sayings by Thomas Creech.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Thomas Creech

Thomas Creech was an English translator of classical works, and headmaster of Sherborne School. Creech translated Lucretius into verse in 1682, for which he received a Fellowship at Oxford. He also produced English versions of Manilius, Horace, Theocritus, and other classics.

1659 - July 19, 1700
For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault.
To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
What studies please, what most delight,
And fill men's thoughts, they dream them o'er at night. — © Thomas Creech
What studies please, what most delight, And fill men's thoughts, they dream them o'er at night.
He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.
They that do much themselves deny, Receive more blessings from the sky.
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