Samuel Daniel Professions : Poet Born : 1562 Died : October 14, 1619 Browse All Authors Top 27 quotes by Samuel Daniel The stars that have most glory have no rest. Samuel Daniel glory stars The greatest works of admiration, Samuel Daniel misery example fear Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. Samuel Daniel customs law art 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 cheer morning sweet Man is a Creature of a wilful Head, Samuel Daniel driven creatures men 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: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth. Samuel Daniel brother sleep time The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears. Samuel Daniel absent stills danger When better cherries are not to be had, Samuel Daniel seeming cherries needs Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice. Samuel Daniel flattery vices nurse Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing. Samuel Daniel woe sickness love-is We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes. Samuel Daniel jeopardize knows men 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 tongue communication may This is that rest this vain world lends, Samuel Daniel vain suicide world Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. Samuel Daniel silence grief light So false is faction, and so smooth a liar, Samuel Daniel smooth sides liars Pow'r above pow'rs! Samuel Daniel affection strong men Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light. Samuel Daniel brother sleep son This many-headed monster, Multitude. Samuel Daniel multitudes monsters But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long. Samuel Daniel writing long years Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up. Samuel Daniel cutting success mean Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
