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As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
George Chapman
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George Chapman
Age: 75 †
Born: 1559
Born: January 1
Died: 1634
Died: May 12
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He is at no end of his actions blestWhose ends will make him greatest, and not best.
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An ill weed grows apace.
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Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
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Man is a torch borne in the wind a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.
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The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.
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Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
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Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.
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