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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
Poet
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City of Westminster
Nature
Sense

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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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The oak, when living, monarch of the wood The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
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Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
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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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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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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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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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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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Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing most when most they seem to slight.
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Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
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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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