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It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
Charles Churchill
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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
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City of Westminster
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Nature
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
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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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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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Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford and reputation bleeds in every word.
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No two on earth in all things can agree All have some darling singularity Women and men, as well as girls and boys, In gewgaws take delight, and sigh for toys, Your sceptres and your crowns, and such like things, Are but a better kind of toys for kings. In things indifferent reason bids us choose, Whether the whim's a monkey or a muse.
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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 rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
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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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Genius is independent of situation.
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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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The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
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And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
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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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Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
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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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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
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Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
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Genius is of no country.
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