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Genius is independent of situation.

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
Poet
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City of Westminster
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He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
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Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
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Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
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Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person, manner, and the grace, Which fools neglect so that we find, If all the requisites are join'd, From whence a perfect joke must spring, A joke's a very serious thing.
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Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.
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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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By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?
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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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He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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To copy faults is want of sense.
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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
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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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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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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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