George Chapman Short Quotes

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Promise is most given when the least is said.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Be free, all worthy spirits,
And stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

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

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Obscuritie in affection of words, & indigested concets, is pedanticall and childish...

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

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He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'...

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