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The best things carried to excess are wrong.

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
Poet
Writer
City of Westminster
Best
Things
Excess
Carried
Wrong

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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
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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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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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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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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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