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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
Poet
Writer
City of Westminster
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Justice
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Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford and reputation bleeds in every word.
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Genius is of no country.
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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.
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If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
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To copy faults is want of sense.
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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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Genius is of no country her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
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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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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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And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
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He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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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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Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
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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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What is this world?--A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what A term, which with no more precision passes To point out herds of men than herds of asses In common use no more it means, we find, Than many fools in same opinions joined.
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Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
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It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
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