English voters, especially, leave voters, tend to prioritize their English identity and want English interests put ahead of the Union, it's not that they are anti-union, it's that their idea of Britishness is as an extension of Englishness and English interests. If the two come into conflict then they prioritize English interests.

John Denham

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too;

John Denham

live-well may life

Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.

John Denham

light ignorance sight

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

John Denham

fate pride writing

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

John Denham

prove doubt knows

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.

John Denham

british territory matter

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

John Denham

slave names fame

Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.

John Denham

taste dream may

Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger.

John Denham

worthy anger love-is

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

John Denham

design mean thinking

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

John Denham

dies passion angel

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

John Denham

pouring language spirit

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.

John Denham

brother kings son

The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

John Denham

abuse men civilization

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.

John Denham

foam guilt gold

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

John Denham

lasts age years

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

John Denham

knows trying knowledge

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

John Denham

age may men

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

John Denham

despair doubt way

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

John Denham

reading use book

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

John Denham

translations ought genius