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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
Sons
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Justice
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
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He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
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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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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
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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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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
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Genius is independent of situation.
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Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
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And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
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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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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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Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
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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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Genius is of no country her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
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Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
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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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Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
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Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford and reputation bleeds in every word.
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