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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

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Unless above himself he can
Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!

A Panegyric Congratulatory to the King's Majesty, &c (1603)

Thou may’st repent that thou hast scorn’d my tears,
When Winter snows upon thy sable hairs.

Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond (1592)

Swift speedy Time, feathered with flying hours,
Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

And you shall find the greatest enemy
A man can have is his prosperity.

He hath nothing done that doth not all.

History of the Civil War (1595)

Ah! 'tis the silent rhetoric of a look,
That works the league betwixt the states of hearts.

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

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

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

A Panegyric Congratulatory to the King's Majesty, &c (1603)

Who reproves the lame must go upright.

History of the Civil War (1595)

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.

History of the Civil War (1595)

And sport, sweet maid, in season of these years,
And learn to gather flowers before they wither

Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond (1592)

The fairest flower that ever saw the light.

Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond (1592)

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.

Devotion, mother of obedience.

History of the Civil War (1595)

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.

A Panegyric Congratulatory to the King's Majesty, &c (1603)

This many-headed monster, Multitude.

History of the Civil War (1595)

Shame leaves us by degrees.

Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond (1592)

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.

Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond (1592)

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.

Musophilus (1599)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Daniel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.