Pity is sworn servant unto love, and this be sure, wherever it begin to make the way, it lets the master in.
—Samuel Daniel
He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much.
—Samuel Daniel
Topics: Poverty
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?
—Samuel Daniel
Topics: Language
Oh, now comes that bitter word—but, which makes all nothing that was said before, that smoothes and wounds, that strikes and dashes more than flat denial, or a plain disgrace.
—Samuel Daniel
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