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• Fair words never hurt the tongue. -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Eastward Ho, Act iv, Sc. 1
• Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Eastward Ho, Act iv, Sc.
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• Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made he
  beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare....
• Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
  -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Monsieur D'Olive, Act i, Sc. 1...
• Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind
  Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air....
• 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 (1557-1634) -- Bussy D'Ambois, Act i, Sc. 1...
• She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Oedipus, Act iv, Sc. 1...
• T is immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
  -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron, Act i, Sc. 1...
• Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself.
  -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Bussy D'Ambois, Act iii, Sc. 1...