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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Charles Churchill

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
Poet
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City of Westminster
Never
Authors
Resentment
Envy
Damn
Critics
Criticism
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Whim

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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
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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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Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.
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Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To boast of apathy when out of pain, And in each sentence, worthy of the schools, Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault That into practice they can ne'er be brought.
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Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford and reputation bleeds in every word.
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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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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