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Genius is independent of situation.

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
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City of Westminster
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Genius
Situation

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The oak, when living, monarch of the wood The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
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With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
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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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The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.
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Genius is of no country.
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
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He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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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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Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
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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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The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.
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Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
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Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.
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