Samuel Daniel Quotes & Sayings

#1. The stars that have most glory have no rest.

#2. Man is a creature of a willful head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.

#3. Pow'r above pow'rs!
O heavenly eloquence!
That with the strong rein of commanding words,
Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence
Of men's affections, more than all their swords!

Samuel Daniel

#4. Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.

Samuel Daniel

#5. Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.

Samuel Daniel

#6. 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

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

Samuel Daniel

#8. And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

Samuel Daniel

#9. Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.

Samuel Daniel

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

Samuel Daniel

#11. This is that rest this vain world lends,
To end in death that all things ends.

Samuel Daniel

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

Samuel Daniel

#13. The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.

Samuel Daniel

#14. 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?

Samuel Daniel

#15. Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

Samuel Daniel

#16. Thus doth the ever-changing course of things
Run a perpetual circle, ever turning;
And that same day, that highest glory brings,
Brings us unto the point of back-returning.

Samuel Daniel