Samuel Daniel Quotes

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

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

Samuel Daniel
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

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

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

Samuel Daniel
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.

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Tiring thy wits and toiling to no end,
But to attain that idle smoke of praise.

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

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I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,
My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.
The world shall find this miracle in me,
That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.

Samuel Daniel
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
Tis strange to see the humour of these men
These great aspiring spirits, that should be wise.

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

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Love is a sickness full of woes,
All remedies refusing.

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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 glory shall be sent,
T'enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
What worlds in th'yet unformed Occident
May come refined with th'accents that are ours?

Samuel Daniel
And look, how Thames, enriched with many a flood…
Glides on, with pomp of waters, unwithstood,
Unto the ocean.

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These are the arks, the trophies, I erect,
That fortify thy name against old age.

Samuel Daniel
Princes in this case
Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.

Samuel Daniel
Unless above himself he can
Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!

Samuel Daniel
Let others sing of knights and paladins In aged accents and untimely words.

Samuel Daniel
Make me to say, when all my griefs are gone, "Happy the heart that sighed for such a one!"

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He that of such a height hath built his mind,
And rear'd the dwelling of his thoughts so strong,
As neither fear nor hope can shake the frame
Of his resolved powers ; nor all the wind
Of vanity or malice pierce to wrong
His settled peace, or to disturb the same ;
What a fair seat hath he, from whence he may
The boundless wastes and wilds of man survey?

And with how free an eye doth he look down
Upon these lower regions of turmoil?
Where all the storms of passions mainly beat
On flesh and blood : where honour, power, renown,
Are only gay afflictions, golden toil ;
Where greatness stands upon as feeble feet,
As frailty doth ; and only great doth seem
To little minds, who do it so esteem.

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

Samuel Daniel