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Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

Charles Churchill

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
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City of Westminster
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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
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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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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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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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Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
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Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
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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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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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Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford and reputation bleeds in every word.
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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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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Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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Patience is sorrow's salve.
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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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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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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.
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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
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