Samuel Daniel Quotes

The thing possessed is not the thing it seems.

Might,
That makes a title where there is no right.

When better choices are not to be had,
We needs must take the seeming best of bad.

Minions too great argue a King too weak.

Shame leaves us by degrees.

Jewels, orators of Love.

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,

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born.

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

And sport, sweet maid, in season of these years,
And learn to gather flowers before they wither

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.

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.

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