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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
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City of Westminster
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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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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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Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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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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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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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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He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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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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England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea.
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Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
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By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
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Genius is independent of 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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Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.
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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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Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.
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