The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.
George ChapmanFor one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
George ChapmanMan is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.
George ChapmanFortune, 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 ChapmanAnd let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
George ChapmanSo 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 ChapmanGive me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.
George ChapmanBlood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.
George ChapmanExtremes, 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 ChapmanAs night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
George ChapmanI will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.
George ChapmanThe incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.
George ChapmanLet no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.
George ChapmanArchers 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 ChapmanPoetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.
George ChapmanAnd 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