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Type: Poet Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes Year of Birth: 1559 Date of Death: May 12, 1634 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: George Chapman Related Authors: Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats William Wordsworth Robert Browning W. H. Auden Elizabeth Barrett Browning John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
George Chapman An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. George Chapman And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. George Chapman Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height. George Chapman 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 Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. George Chapman For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still. George Chapman He that shuns trifles must shun the world. George Chapman I am ashamed the law is such an ass. George Chapman Ignorance is the mother of admiration. George Chapman Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel. George Chapman Promise is most given when the least is said. George Chapman Pure innovation is more gross than error. George Chapman They're only truly great who are truly good. George Chapman We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of. George Chapman Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. George Chapman Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. George Chapman |
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