Samuel Daniel Quotes
1562–1619 England
Samuel Daniel (1562 – October 14, 1619) was an English poet and historian.
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Also known as: Daniel, Samuel
40 quotes
The thing possessed is not the thing it seems.
This is the thing that I was born to do.
And for the few that only lend their ear,
That few is all the world.
To spend the time luxuriously
Becomes not men of worth.
Folly in youth is sin, in age 'tis madness.
Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind
To look out through, and his Frailty find.
When better choices are not to be had,
We needs must take the seeming best of bad.
Man is a creature of a wilful head,
And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.
Princes in this case
Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.
Might,
That makes a title where there is no right.
The absent danger greater still appears;
Less fears he who is near the thing he fears.
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born.
Th' aspirer, once attain'd unto the top,
Cuts off those means by which himself got up.
For women grieve to think they must be old.
Sacred on earth; designed a saint above!
Men do not weigh the stalk for what it was,
When once they find her flow’r, her glory, pass.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Daniel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.