George Chapman Quotes

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• An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
• 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…
• And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
• Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
• For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
• We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
• Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
• Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
• Pure innovation is more gross than error.
• Promise is most given when the least is said.
• He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
• Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
• Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
• I am ashamed the law is such an ass.
• Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.
• Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
• They're only truly great who are truly good.
• Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble,…

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