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• Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?

  George Chapman

  Archer, Men, Two

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.150

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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.

  George Chapman

  Giving, Honor, Way

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• News as wholesome as the morning air.

  George Chapman

  Morning, Air, News

  Christopher Marlowe, George Chapman (1821). “Hero and Leander: A Poem”, p.96

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• He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

  George Chapman

  World, Trifles

  George Chapman, Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations”, p.70

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

  George Chapman

  Perfect, Birth, Born

  1611 The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets,'Epistle Dedicatory'.

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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.

  George Chapman

  Hatred, Too Much, Doe

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• Enough 's as good as a feast.

  George Chapman

  Enough

  Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston (2014). “Eastward Ho!”, p.62, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

  George Chapman

  Mother, Ignorance, Definitions

  George Chapman, Akihiro Yamada (1975). “The Widow's Tears”, p.59, Manchester University Press

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

  George Chapman

  Meaning Something, Oratory, Clarity

  "Ovid's Banquet of Sense". Poem by George Chapman, Preface, 1595.

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

  George Chapman

  Inspirational, Agents, Natural

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.155

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• Pure innovation is more gross than error.

  George Chapman

  Fear, Failure, Errors

  George Chapman, N S. Brooke (1999). “Bussy D'ambois: George Chapman”, p.18, Manchester University Press

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

  George Chapman

  Men, Done, Virtue

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• I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.

  George Chapman

  Flower, Lovers, Praying

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.58

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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.

  George Chapman

  Life, Winning, Names

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.141

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• Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.

  George Chapman

  Eye, Jewels, Black

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.37

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

  George Chapman

  Passion, Heat, Stills

  'Monsieur D'Olive' (1606) act 5, sc. 1

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• And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

  George Chapman

  Walking Away, Earth, Clock

  The Tears of Peace l. 530 (1609)

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• Make ducks and drakes with shillings.

  George Chapman

  Money, Ducks

  Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston (2014). “Eastward Ho!”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Words writ in waters.

  George Chapman

  Water

  George Chapman (1873). “Comedies and Tragedies: Now First Collected with Illustrative Notes and a Memoir of the Author”, p.351

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

  George Chapman

  Sleep, Eye, Blood

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.336

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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.

  George Chapman

  Soul, Tragedy, Fiction

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.178

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• Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

  George Chapman

  Dream, Men, Wind

  'Bussy D'Ambois' (1607-8)

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

  George Chapman

  Inspirational, Greatness, Height

  George Chapman (1990). “The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron”, p.35, Manchester University Press

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

  George Chapman

  Action, Ends

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.272

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