Samuel Daniel Quotes


"The wise are above books."
- Samuel Daniel
(Related: Books)

"The stars that have most glory have no rest."
- Samuel Daniel
(Related: Glory, Rest, Stars)

"Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb."
- Samuel Daniel
(Related: Dumb, Light, Words)

"Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using."
- Samuel Daniel
(Related: Love, Remedies, Sickness)

"Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art."
- Samuel Daniel
(Related: Art, Nature, Custom, Law)

"By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown."
- Samuel Daniel
(Related: Admiration, Adversity, Misery)

"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
(Related: Beauty, Love, Time, Dew, Sun)

"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."
- Samuel Daniel
(Related: World)