George Chapman Quotes

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Musicke, and moode, she loues, but loue she hates,
(As curious Ladies do, their publique cates)
This traine, with meteors, comets, lightenings,
The dreadfull presence of our Empresse sings:
Which grant for euer (ô eternall Night)
Till vertue flourish in the light of light.

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And let a scholar all Earth's volumes carry,
He will be but a walking dictionary.

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Cornelia. What flowers are these?
Gazetta. The pansy this.
Cor. Oh, that 's for lovers' thoughts.

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Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

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Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea
Loves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind,
Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack,
And his rapt ship run on her side so low
That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

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Let no man value at a little price
A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit
Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.

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Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
Hath divers ways to advance her followers:
To some she gives honour without deserving,
To other some, deserving without honour.

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I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun,
Causing a spring of virtues where he shines.

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His deeds inimitable, like the sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
Nor prints of precedent for poor men's facts.

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Promise is most given when the least is said.

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Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.

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Danger (the spur of all great minds) is ever
The curb to your tame spirits.

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Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her
Is righted even when men grant they err.

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'T is immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

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Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair
In that she never studied to be fairer
Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing,
Her virtues were so rare.

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Who to himself is law no law doth need,
Offends no law, and is a king indeed.

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Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.

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Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.

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This was a sleight well mask'd. O, what is man,
Unless he be a Politician?

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There is no danger to a man, that knows
What life and death is; there's not any law,
Exceeds his knowledge.

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For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.

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So our lives
In acts exemplary, not only win
Ourselves good names, but doth to others give
Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

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Love calls to war;
Sighs his alarms,
Lips his swords are,
The field his arms.

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I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

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Why, do nothing, be like a gentleman, be idle.... Make ducks and drakes with shillings.

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We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

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Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream
But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

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As night the life-inclining stars best shows,
So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

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Each natural agent works but to this end,—
To render that it works on like itself.

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Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on 't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia]; for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.

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