Samuel Daniel Quotes

22 quotes in 259 categories

• Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
• Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light.
• We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
• Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
• The stars that have most glory have no rest.
• 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…
• Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
• 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…
• Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.
• Man is a creature of a willful head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.
• Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
• The wise are above books.
• The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.
• Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.
• 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…
• By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
• 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…
• Princes in this case, Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.
• The best thing of our life, our rest, And give us up to toil.

Browse Samuel Daniel Quotes by Category