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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
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City of Westminster
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Justice
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Men
Amongst
Sons
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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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Patience is sorrow's salve.
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Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.
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When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.
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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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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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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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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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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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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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Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.
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By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?
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To copy faults is want of sense.
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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
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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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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
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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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