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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.
Charles Churchill
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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
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City of Westminster
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Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught, Is all her malice worth a single thought. The wise have not the will, nor fools the power, To stop her headstrong course within the hour Left to herself, she dies opposing strife Gives her fresh vigor, and prolongs her life.
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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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Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
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Genius is of no country.
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
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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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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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Genius is of no country her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
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Genius is independent of situation.
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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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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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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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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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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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Patience is sorrow's salve.
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To copy faults is want of sense.
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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
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By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?
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