Quotes
Quotes - Chapman
None ever loved but at first sight they loved.
An ill weed grows apace.
Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.
Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair
In that she never studied to be fairer
Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing,
Her virtues were so rare.
I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun,
Causing a spring of virtues where he shines.
Cornelia. What flowers are these?
Gazetta. The pansy this.
Cor. Oh, that's for lovers' thoughts.
Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
Hath divers ways to advance her followers:
To some she gives honour without deserving,
To other some, deserving without honour.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her
Is righted even when men grant they err.
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.
Let no man value at a little price
A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit
Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.
To put a girdle round about the world.
His deeds inimitable, like the sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
Nor prints of precedent for poor men's facts.
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.
Who to himself is law no law doth need,
Offends no law, and is a king indeed.
Each natural agent works but to this end,--
To render that it works on like itself.
'T is immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
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.
He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.
Words writ in waters.
They 're only truly great who are truly good.
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'T is good to be merry and wise.
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on 't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia]; for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.
Enough's as good as a feast.
