Paul Kurtz
American professor of philosophy (1925-2012)
Samuel Daniel
Poet and historian
Samuel Danielwas 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.
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Samuel Danielwas 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 one of the preeminent authors of his time and his works had a significant influence on contemporary writers, including William Shakespeare. Daniel’s writings continued to influence authors for centuries after his death, especially the Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. C. S. Lewis called Daniel “the most interesting man of letters” whom the sixteenth century produced in England.
9 Quotes by Samuel Daniel
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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The wise are above books.
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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.
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We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
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The stars that have most glory have no rest.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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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.
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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.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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