Samuel Daniel Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Samuel Daniel
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“This is the Thing that I was born to do.”
Deeds Quotes
Source: Musophilus (st. 100)
“Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.”
Silence Quotes
Source: Complaint of Rosemond (st. 114)
“Th' aspirer, once attain'd unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.”
Success Quotes
Source: Civil War (bk. II)
“This many-headed monster, Multitude.”
Public Quotes
Source: History of the Civil War (bk. II, st. 13)
“The key of the fields (street). [Fr., La clef des champs.]”
Public Quotes
Source: History of the Civil War (bk. II, st. 13)
“As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out through, and his Frailty find.”
Mind Quotes
Source: History of the Civil War (bk. IV, st. 84)
“Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light.”
Sleep Quotes
Source: Sonnet (46, To Delia)
“And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?”
Language Quotes
Source: Musophilus (last lines)
“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?”
Language Quotes
“Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.”
Love Quotes