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Samuel Daniel

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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


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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.


— Samuel Daniel


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


— Samuel Daniel


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Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.


— Samuel Daniel


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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.


— Samuel Daniel


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The stars that have most glory have no rest.


— Samuel Daniel


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The wise are above books.


— Samuel Daniel


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We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.


— Samuel Daniel


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Did you know about Samuel Daniel?

His first known work a translation of Paulus Jovius to which some original matter is appended was printed in 1585. Later life
He was first encouraged and by his own account taught in verse by the famous Countess of Pembroke whose honour he was never weary of proclaiming. Dedicated to "The Right Honourable the Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke" we learn that Delia lived on the banks of the River Avon—not Shakespeare's one of course but the one which flowed through "where Delia has her seat" at Wilton in Wiltshire—and that the sonnets to her were inspired by her memory when the poet was in Italy.

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