14 Samuel Daniel Quotes

Samuel Daniel quotes

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

2. 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

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

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

3. Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.

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

5. Man is a Creature of a wilful Head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.

6. Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.

7. When better cherries are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad.

8. The best thing of our life, our rest, And give us up to toil.

9. 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 enjoyed, it sighing cries, Hey ho.

10. 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.

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

12. 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?