Samuel Daniel Quotes

• The stars that have most glory have no rest.

  Samuel Daniel

  Stars, Glory

  Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...”, p.303

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• The greatest works of admiration,
  And all the fair examples of renown.
  Out of distress and misery are grown.

  Samuel Daniel

  Fear, Example, Misery

  Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...”, p.362

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• Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.

  Samuel Daniel

  Love Is, Woe, Sickness

  Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings”, p.105

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• Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

  Samuel Daniel

  Art, Law, Customs

  'A Defence of Rhyme'

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• Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

  Samuel Daniel

  Sweet, Morning, Cheer

  Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.6

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• Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.

  Samuel Daniel

  Nurse, Vices, Flattery

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• When better cherries are not to be had,
  We needs must take the seeming best of bad.

  Samuel Daniel

  Needs, Cherries, Seeming

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• The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.

  Samuel Daniel

  Danger, Absent, Stills

  Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings”, p.283

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• This many-headed monster, Multitude.

  Samuel Daniel

  Monsters, Multitudes

  Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...”, p.47

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• Thus doth the ever-changing course of things
  Run a perpetual circle, ever turning;
  And that same day, that highest glory brings,
  Brings us unto the point of back-returning.

  Samuel Daniel

  Running, Circles, Glory

  Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.215

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• Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

  Samuel Daniel

  Love, Cutting, Woe

  Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings”, p.105

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• We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.

  Samuel Daniel

  Men, Knows, Jeopardize

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• This is that rest this vain world lends,
  To end in death that all things ends.

  Samuel Daniel

  Suicide, World, Vain

  Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...”, p.270

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• The wise are above books.

  Samuel Daniel

  Wise, Book

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• Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.

  Samuel Daniel

  Success, Mean, Cutting

  Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...”, p.48

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• Pow'r above pow'rs!
  O heavenly eloquence!
  That with the strong rein of commanding words,
  Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence
  Of men's affections, more than all their swords!

  Samuel Daniel

  Strong, Men, Affection

  Samuel Daniel, “Musophilus Containing A General Defence Of All Learning (Ex”

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• Man is a Creature of a wilful Head,
  And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.

  Samuel Daniel

  Men, Driven, Creatures

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• Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.

  Samuel Daniel

  Mother, Religion, Sacred

  Samuel Daniel, George Sewell (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings..”, p.375

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• Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light.

  Samuel Daniel

  Brother, Sleep, Son

  'Sonnets to Delia' (1592) no. 54

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• Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

  Samuel Daniel

  Grief, Light, Silence

  Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.236

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• Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.

  Samuel Daniel

  Brother, Time, Sleep

  'Sonnets to Delia' (1592) no. 54

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• But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.

  Samuel Daniel

  Writing, Years, Long

  'Philotas' (1605) 'To the Prince' (dedication) l. 108

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• And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?

  Samuel Daniel

  Communication, May, Tongue

  Samuel Daniel, “Musophilus Containing A General Defence Of All Learning (Ex”

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• And for the few that only lend their ear,
  That few is all the world.

  Samuel Daniel

  Ears, World

  Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.132

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• So false is faction, and so smooth a liar,
  As that it never had a side entire.

  Samuel Daniel

  Liars, Sides, Smooth

  Samuel Daniel, George Sewell (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings..”, p.232

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