George Chapman quotes - page 3

Use makes things nothing huge, and huge things nothing. (George Chapman)
To put a girdle round about the world. View quote
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As cedars beaten with continual storms, So great men flourish; and do imitate Unskilful statuaries, who suppose, In forging a Colossus, if they make him Straddle enough, strut, and look big, and gape, Their work is goodly: so men merely great In their affected gravity of voice, Sourness of countenance, manners' cruelty, Authority, wealth, and all the spawn of fortune, Think they bear all the kingdom's worth before them, Yet differ not from those colossic statues, Which, with heroic forms without o'erspread, Within are naught but mortar, flint and lead. View quote
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How blinde is pride! what eagles we are still In matters that belong to other men, What beetles in our own! View quote
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Danger (the spur of all great minds) is ever The curb to your tame spirits. View quote
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He that to nought aspires, doth nothing need; Who breaks no law is subject to no king. View quote
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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. View quote
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Obscuritie in affection of words, & indigested concets, is pedanticall and childish... View quote
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This was a sleight well mask'd. O, what is man, Unless he be a Politician? View quote
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As when about the silver moon, when air is free from wind, And stars shine clear; to whose sweet beams, high prospects, and the brows Of all steep hills and pinnacles, thrust up themselves for shows; And even the lowly valleys joy, to glitter in their sight, When the unmeasured firmament bursts to disclose her light, And all the signs in heaven are seen that glad the shepherd's heart. View quote
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Our hopes, I see, resemble much the sun, That rising and declining cast large shadows; But when his beams are dressed in's midday brightness, Yields none at all: when they are farthest from Success, their guilt reflection does display The largest shows of events fair and prosperous. (George Chapman)
Achilles' baneful wrath resound, O Goddess, that imposed Infinite sorrows on the Greeks, and many brave souls loosed From breasts heroic. View quote
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Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel. View quote
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We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of. View quote
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He that shuns trifles must shun the world. View quote
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Pure innovation is more gross than error. View quote
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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. View quote
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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. View quote
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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? View quote
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The sea had soaked his heart through. View quote
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Achilles' baneful wrath resound, O Goddess, that imposed Infinite sorrows on the Greeks, and many brave souls loosed From breasts heroic, sent them far to that invisible cave That no light comforts, and their limbs to dogs and vultures gave; To all which Jove's will gave effect; from whom first strife begun Betwixt Atrides, king of men, and Thetis' godlike son. (George Chapman)