Samuel Daniel Quotes

Man is a creature of a willful head, and hardly driven is, but eas'ly led. - Samuel Daniel

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. Why so? More we enjoy it, more it dies; If not enjoyed, it sighing cries, Hey ho. - Samuel Daniel

Love is a sickness full of woes, / All remedies refusing; / A plant that with most cutting grows, / Most barren with best using. / Why so? / More we enjoy it, more it dies; / If not enjoyed, it sighing cries, / Hey ho. - Samuel Daniel

How dost thou wear and weary out thy days, / Restless Ambition, never at an end! - Samuel Daniel

Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair, / Her brow shades frowns, although her eyes are sunny. - Samuel Daniel

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

Come, worthy Greek! Ulysses, come; / Possess these shores with me! / The winds and seas are troublesome / And here we may be free. - Samuel Daniel

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light. - Samuel Daniel

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

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

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