And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
– Samuel Daniel
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 refin'd with th' accents that are ours?
– Samuel Daniel
As that the walls worn thin, permit the mindTo look out through, and his Frailty find.
– 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
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
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light.
– Samuel Daniel
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
– Samuel Daniel
Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair, / Her brow shades frowns, although her eyes are sunny.
– Samuel Daniel
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
– Samuel Daniel
Man is a creature of a willful head, and hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.
– Samuel Daniel
Princes in this case / Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.
– Samuel Daniel
Sacred religion! Mother of Form and Fear!
– Samuel Daniel
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
– Samuel Daniel
Th' aspirer, once attain'd unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.
– Samuel Daniel
The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.
– Samuel Daniel
The stars that have most glory have no rest.
– Samuel Daniel
The wise are above books.
– Samuel Daniel
This is the Thing that I was born to do.
– Samuel Daniel
This many-headed monster, Multitude.
– Samuel Daniel
We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.