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"Sacred on earth; designed a saint above!"
Samuel DanielMight, — Samuel Daniel
"Might, That makes a title where there is no right."
Samuel Daniel
Samuel Daniel
author1562–1619
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) was an English poet, playwright and historian in the late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean eras. He was an innovator in a wide range of literary genres. His best-known works are the sonnet cycle Delia, the epic poem The Civil Wars Between the Houses of Lancaster and York, the dialogue in verse Musophilus, and the essay on English poetry A Defence of Rhyme. He was considered
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"Devotion, mother of obedience."
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"Pity is sworn servant unto love; And thus be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets the master in."
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"And you shall find the greatest enemy A man can have is his prosperity."
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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. 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."
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"But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long."
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