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• He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.
  -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron, Act v, 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...
• I have heard a well-built woman compared in her motion to a ship under sail, yet I would advise no wise man to be her owner if her freight be nothing but what she carries between wind and water.
  -- Francis Osborne (advising his son not to marry a beautiful but poor girl) Never eat a heavily sugared doughnut before you go on TV....
• Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act i, Sc. 1...
• 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.
  -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Bussy D'Ambois, Act i, Sc. 1...
• A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.
  -- Cyril Tourneur (c. 1600) -- The Revenger's Tragedy, Act iii, Sc. 1...
• 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...
• 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....
• Let every man be master of his time Till seven at night.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act iii, Sc. 1...