Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

This is the Thing that I was born to do.
Topic: Deeds
Author: Samuel Daniel
And 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 th' yet unformed Occident May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?
Topic: Language
Author: Samuel Daniel
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?
Topic: Language
Author: Samuel Daniel
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
Topic: Love
Author: Samuel Daniel
As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out through, and his Frailty find.
Topic: Mind
Author: Samuel Daniel
This many-headed monster, Multitude.
Topic: Public
Author: Samuel Daniel
The key of the fields .
Topic: Public
Author: Samuel Daniel
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
Topic: Silence
Author: Samuel Daniel
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light.
Topic: Sleep
Author: Samuel Daniel
Th' aspirer, once attain'd unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.
Topic: Success
Author: Samuel Daniel
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