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Genius is independent of situation.

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

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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
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Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb.
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Genius is of no country her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
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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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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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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 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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If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
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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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Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
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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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It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
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