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Samuel Daniel
44 quotes
“And you shall find the greatest enemy A man can have is his prosperity.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Folly in youth is sin, in age 'tis madness.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For 'tis some ease our sorrows to reveal, If they to whom we shall impart our woes, Seem but to feel a part of what we feel, And meet us with a sigh, but at the close.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Princes in this case Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The absent danger greater still appears; Less fears he who is near the thing he fears.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pity is sworn servant unto love; And thus be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets the master in.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man is a creature of a wilful head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah! 'tis the silent rhetoric of a look, That works the league betwixt the states of hearts.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To spend the time luxuriously Becomes not men of worth.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) first seen 1605 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ulysses and the Siren", Certain Small Poems (1605)
“Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. Why so? More we enjoy it, more it dies; If not enjoy’d, it sighing cries— Heigh ho!Love is a torment of the mind, A tempest everlasting; And Jove hath made it of a kind Not well, nor full nor fasting. Why so? More we enjoy it, &c.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) first seen 1614 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hymen’s Triumph (1614)
“Sacred on earth; designed a saint above!”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fairest flower that ever saw the light.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men do not weigh the stalk for what it was, When once they find her flow’r, her glory, pass.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) first seen 1592 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1592 & 1594 eds.: "that" for "what
“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 (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou may’st repent that thou hast scorn’d my tears, When Winter snows upon thy sable hairs.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) first seen 1592 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1592 & 1594 eds.: "golden" for "sable
“For women grieve to think they must be old.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) first seen 1592 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1592 & 1594 eds.: "And" for "For
“And sport, sweet maid, in season of these years, And learn to gather flowers before they wither”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) first seen 1592 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1592 ed.: "Ah sport" for "And sport
“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 (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But her will must be obeyed,”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Compare: "She Who Must Be Obeyed", H. Rider Haggard, She (1887)
“Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes, Dumb eloquence, whose power doth move the blood More than the words or wisdom of the wise.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jewels, orators of Love.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Shame leaves us by degrees.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Minions too great argue a King too weak.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When better choices are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Might, That makes a title where there is no right.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The thing possessed is not the thing it seems.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who reproves the lame must go upright.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The bounds once overgone that hold men in, They never stay; but on from bad to worse. Wrongs do not leave off there where they begin, But still beget new mischiefs in their course.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He hath nothing done that doth not all.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out thorough, and his frailty find. 1”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Devotion, mother of obedience.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The stars that have most glory have no rest.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O blessed letters that combine in one All ages past, and make one live with all, By you we do confer with who are gone, And the dead living unto counsel call: By you th'unborn shall have communion Of what we feel, and what doth us befall.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is the thing that I was born to do.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 the yet unformed Occident May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For ever by Adversity are wrought The greatest Works of Admiration; And all the Fair Examples of Renown, Out of Distress and Misery are grown.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out thorough, and his frailty find.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source