Samuel Daniel Quotes

Man is a creature of a wilful head,
And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.

Folly in youth is sin, in age 'tis madness.

The absent danger greater still appears;
Less fears he who is near the thing he fears.

O blessed letters that combine in one
All ages past, and make one live with all,
By you we do confer with who are gone,
And the dead living unto counsel call:
By you th'unborn shall have communion
Of what we feel, and what doth us befall.

Men do not weigh the stalk for what it was,
When once they find her flow’r, her glory, pass.

Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes,
Dumb eloquence, whose power doth move the blood
More than the words or wisdom of the wise.

But her will must be obeyed,

Princes in this case
Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.

He hath nothing done that doth not all.

The bounds once overgone that hold men in,
They never stay; but on from bad to worse.
Wrongs do not leave off there where they begin,
But still beget new mischiefs in their course.

For women grieve to think they must be old.

Thou may’st repent that thou hast scorn’d my tears,
When Winter snows upon thy sable hairs.

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 enjoy’d, it sighing cries— Heigh ho!Love is a torment of the mind, A tempest everlasting;
And Jove hath made it of a kind Not well, nor full nor fasting. Why so?
More we enjoy it, &c.

I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,
My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.
The world shall find this miracle in me,
That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.

For 'tis some ease our sorrows to reveal,
If they to whom we shall impart our woes,
Seem but to feel a part of what we feel,
And meet us with a sigh, but at the close.