George Chapman Quotes
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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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Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
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For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
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Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
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Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.
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Fair words never hurt the tongue.
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And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy.
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News as wholesome as the morning air.
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Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.
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Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.
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Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.
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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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Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.
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The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.
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Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
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Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
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We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
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Pure innovation is more gross than error.
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Enough 's as good as a feast.
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Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
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Fate's such a shrewish thing.
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He is at no end of his actions blestWhose ends will make him greatest, and not best.
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He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
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And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
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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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Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
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Danger, the spur of all great minds.
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Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.
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Tis immortality to die aspiring.
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Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
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