George Chapman Quotes
d. 1634 England
George Chapman (c. 1559 – May 12, 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet.
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Also known as: Chapman, George
123 quotes
True courtiers should be modest, and not nice;
Bold, but not impudent; pleasure love, not vice.
A race
Of proud-lined loiterers, that never sow,
Nor put a plant in earth, nor use a plough.
As night the life-inclining stars best shows,
So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream
But of a shadow, summ'd with all his substance.
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her
Is righted even when men grant they err.
'Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.
A good man happy is a common good.
Where the king's change doth breed the subject's terror,
Pure innovation is more gross than error.
The seas retain
Not only their outrageous esture there,
But supernatural mischief they expire.
You shall die
Twice now, where others, that mortality
In her fair arms holds, shall but once decease.
He would believe, since he would be believed;
Your noblest natures are most credulous.
Where ambition of place goes before fitness
Of birth, contempt and disgrace follow.
Be free, all worthy spirits,
And stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
Your wit is of the true Pierian spring,
That can make anything of anything.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Chapman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.