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George Chapman
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“O incredulity! the wit of fools, That slovenly will spit on all things fair, The coward’s castle, and the sluggard’s cradle.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) first seen 1596 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: De Guiana, Carmen Epicum, line 84; appended to Lawrence Kemys's A Relation of the Second Voyage to Guiana (1596)
“Guiana, whose rich feet are mines of gold, Whose forehead knocks against the roof of stars, Stands on her tip-toes at fair England looking Kissing her hand, bowing her mighty breast, And every sign of all submission making, To be her sister, and the daughter both Of our most sacred Maid: whose barrenness Is the true fruit of virtue, that may get, Bear and bring forth anew in all perfection, What heretofore savage corruption held In barbarous Chaos; and in this affair Become her father, mother, and her heir.”
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“Homer's poems were writ from a free fury, an absolute and full soul; Virgil's out of a courtly, laborious, and altogether imitatory spirit: not a simile he hath but is Homer's; not an invention, person, or disposition but is wholly or originally built upon Homerical foundations, and in many places hath the very words Homer useth.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) first seen 1598 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dedication to Achilles' Shield (1598)
“Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) first seen 1606 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1606), , Act I, scene i
“For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.”
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Recorded in: Monsieur D'Olive (1606), , Act V, scene i, line 8
“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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Recorded in: (1606), , Act IV, scene i
“Great goddess, to whose throne in Cynthian fires, This earthly altar endless fumes expires; Therefore, in fumes of sighs and fires of grief, To fearful chances thou send'st bold relief, Happy, thrice happy type, and nurse of death, Who, breathless, feeds on nothing but our breath, In whom must virtue and her issue live, Or die for ever.”
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“Music, and mood, she loves, but love she hates (As curious ladies do, their public cates), This train, with meteors, comets, lightenings, The dreadful presence of our empress sings: Which grant for ever (O eternal Night) Till virtue flourish in the light of light.”
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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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“Obscurity in affection of words and indigested conceits is pedantical and childish.”
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“Use makes things nothing huge, and huge things nothing.”
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“Gentle and noble are their tempers framed, That can be quicken'd with perfumes and sounds.”
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“Too much desire to please, pleasure divorces.”
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“Cupid’s bonfires burning in the eye.”
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“And eat your entrails out with ecstacies.”
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“But my love is the cordial of souls, Teaching by passion what perfection is, In whose fix'd beauties shine the sacred scroll, And long-lost records of your human bliss, Spirit to flesh, and soul to spirit giving, Love flows not from my liver but her living.”
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“Her mind—the beam of God—draws in the fires Of her chaste eyes, from all earth's tempting fuel; * * * And in th' untainted temple of her heart Doth the divorceless nuptials celebrate 'Twixt God and her; where love's profaned dart Feeds the chaste flames of Hymen's firmament.”
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“Though my years would have me old, I am not, But have the gentle jerk of youth in me, As fresh as he that hath a maiden's chin.”
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“None ever loved but at first sight they loved.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) first seen 1598 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Compare: Marlowe, Hero and Leander (1598): "Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
“An ill weed grows apace.”
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“Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.”
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“Yet hath the morning sprinkled through the clouds But half her tincture; and the sail of night Sticks still upon the bosom of the air.”
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“He that shuns trifles must shun the world.”
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“Love is a golden bubble, full of dreams, That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.”
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“The use of time is fate.”
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“Sin is ashamed of sin.”
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“Ill may a sad mind forge a merry face, Nor hath constrainèd laughter any grace.”
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“Women are most won, when men merit least.”
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“Love's special lesson is to please the eye.”
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“News as wholesome as the morning air.”
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“Love calls to war; Sighs his alarms, Lips his swords are, The field his arms.”
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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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“I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun, Causing a spring of virtues where he shines.”
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“Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects; Extreme heat mortifies like extreme cold: Extreme love breeds satiety as well As extreme hatred; and too violent rigour Tempts chastity as much as too much licence.”
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“: What flowers are these? : The pansy this. : Oh, that's for lover's thoughts.”
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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!”
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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; Some wit, some wealth,—and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.”
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“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”
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“Marriage is ever made by destiny.”
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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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“Why, do nothing; be like a gentleman, be idle; the curse of man is labour. Wipe thy bum with testones, and make ducks and drakes with shillings.”
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Recorded in: Note: testones=sixpences (though it was also a name for the depreciated Henry VII shilling).—Spencer Hazelton, Elizabethan Plays (1933), p. 479
“Where ambition of place goes before fitness Of birth, contempt and disgrace follow.”
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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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“Fair words never hurt the tongue.”
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“Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.”
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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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“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.”
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“Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summ'd with all his substance.”
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“Where the king's change doth breed the subject's terror, Pure innovation is more gross than error.”
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“'Tis leap-year, lady, and therefore very good to enter a courtier.”
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