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George Chapman Biography

George Chapman (Hitchin, Hertfordshire, c. 1559 – London, 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist, translator, and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been identified as the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's sonnets by William Minto, and as an anticipator of the metaphysical poets of the 17th century. Chapman is best remembered for his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and the Homeric Batrachomyomachia.

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Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

Aspiring, Heaven, Men, Taken

Let 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.

Feathered, Her Beauty, Littles, Men, Price, Winged

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

Done, Grant, Men, Righted, Virtue

Archers 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?

Archer, Men, Two, Common, Bow

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.

Business, Good, Light, Shop, Wise

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

Fair, Fairness, Hurt, Tongue, Words

Give 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.

Life, Loves, Running, Sea, Till, Tremble

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

Carry, Clock, Dictionary, Earth, Let, Walking Away

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Let, Man, Men, Under, Virtuous, Virtuous Woman

Fortune, 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.

Deserving, Followers, Giving, Honor, World

The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.

Accomplish, Afterward, Best Way, Courage, Way

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

Disaster, Failure, Impressive, Order, Responsibility

Make ducks and drakes with shillings.

Drakes, Ducks, Make, Money, Shillings

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

Age, Fools, Know, Men, Old, Thinking

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Errors, Failure, Fear, Gross, Innovation, Pure

Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.

Faith, God, Hath, Man, Men

Promise is most given when the least is said.

Given, Keeping Promises, Kept Promises, Promise, Said

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

Dog, Flatterers, Friends, Friendship, Funny, Wolves

Tis immortality to die aspiring.

Ambition, Aspiring, Die, Dies, Immortality

News as wholesome as the morning air.

Air, Morning, News

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