01c. 1590 ADAs that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out thorough, and his frailty find.Samuel Daniel / quote ↗
03c. 1590 ADAnd for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.Samuel Daniel / quote ↗
05c. 1590 ADAnd who (in time) knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?Samuel Daniel / quote ↗
06c. 1590 ADUnless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!Samuel Daniel / quote ↗
07c. 1590 ADCare-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born.Samuel Daniel / quote ↗
08UndatedO happy man, saith he, that lo I see Grazing his cattle in those pleasant fields, If he but knew his good. How blessed he That feels not what affliction greatness yields! Other than what he is who would not be, Nor change his state with him that sceptre wields. Thine, thine is that true life; that is to live, To rest secure, and not rise up to grieve.Samuel Daniel / quote ↗
09UndatedBeauty, 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 / quote ↗
12UndatedBy adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.Samuel Daniel / quote ↗
Edsverb reading card◎MeditationsMarcus AureliusFree edition · US public domainMeric Casaubon translation (1634), later edited editionRelated reading on mind; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗
Edsverb reading card道Tao Te ChingLaozi (traditional attribution)Free edition · US public domainJames Legge translation; publication year not supplied in the linked digitized textRelated reading on nature; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗
Edsverb reading card☼The ProphetKahlil GibranFree edition · US public domain1923 English editionRelated reading on love and life; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗