Samuel Daniel quotes
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“The stars that have most glory have no rest.”
-- Samuel DanielSource : 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 DanielSource : 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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“The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.”
-- Samuel DanielSource : 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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“Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.”
-- Samuel DanielSource : 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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“But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.”
-- Samuel DanielSource : 'Philotas' (1605) 'To the Prince' (dedication) l. 108
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“This many-headed monster, Multitude.”
-- Samuel DanielSource : 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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“When better cherries are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad.”
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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 DanielSource : 'Sonnets to Delia' (1592) no. 54
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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 DanielSource : Samuel Daniel, “Musophilus Containing A General Defence Of All Learning (Ex”
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“So false is faction, and so smooth a liar, As that it never had a side entire.”
-- Samuel DanielSource : 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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“This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends.”
-- Samuel DanielSource : 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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“Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.”
-- Samuel DanielSource : 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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“Man is a creature of a willful head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.”
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“Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.”
-- Samuel DanielSource : 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; Relive my languish, and restore the light.”
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“We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.”
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“Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.”
-- Samuel DanielSource : '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 DanielSource : Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.6
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“Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.”
-- Samuel DanielSource : 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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“And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.”
-- Samuel DanielSource : Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.132
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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 DanielSource : Samuel Daniel, “Musophilus Containing A General Defence Of All Learning (Ex”
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“Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.”
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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 DanielSource : Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.215
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