Samuel Daniel was an English poet, born in 1562 and died on October 14, 1619. His poetry works held a significant place in 17th-century English literature, known for their elegant rhythms and profound emotions.
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“The world shall find this miracle in me, that fire can burn when all matter's spent.”
Source: Delia: Elizabethan Sonnet Cycle
“The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings
“Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...
“But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.”
“This many-headed monster, Multitude.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...
“When better cherries are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad.”
“So false is faction, and so smooth a liar, As that it never had a side entire.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings..
“This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...
Source: Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc
Source: Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc
“We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.”
“Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.”
“The stars that have most glory have no rest.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...
Source: The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...
Source: Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc
“Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings..
“And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.”
Source: Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc
“Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings
“Man is a Creature of a wilful Head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings