Samuel Daniel was an English poet and historian.
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“We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.”
Samuel Daniel
“Men do not weigh the stalk for that it was,When once they find her flower, her glory, pass.”
“How dost thou wear and weary out thy days, / Restless Ambition, never at an end!”
“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?”
“Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair, / Her brow shades frowns, although her eyes are sunny.”
“Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.”
“Princes in this case / Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.”
“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.”
“Man is a creature of a willful head, and hardly driven is, but eas'ly led”
“The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears”