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Charles Churchill Inspirational Quotes (52)

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Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To boast of apathy when out of pain, And in each sentence, worthy of the schools, Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault That into practice they can ne'er be brought.
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Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set a spell, Prepar'd by arts, to them best known To catch all feet except their own, Who, as to fortune, can unlock it, As easily as pick a pocket.
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Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
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The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
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Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.
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He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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Enough of satire in less harden'd times Great was her force, and mighty were her rhymes. I've read of men, beyond man's daring brave, Who yet have trembled at the strokes she gave Whose souls have felt more terrible alarms From her one line, than from a world in arms.
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Genius is independent of situation.
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It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
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What is this world?--A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what A term, which with no more precision passes To point out herds of men than herds of asses In common use no more it means, we find, Than many fools in same opinions joined.
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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
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Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing most when most they seem to slight.
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Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.
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Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford and reputation bleeds in every word.
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The oak, when living, monarch of the wood The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.
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If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
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Within the brain's most secret cells, A certain lord chief justice dwells, Of sov'reign power, whom one and all, With common voice we reason call.
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Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
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