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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
Poet
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City of Westminster
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And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
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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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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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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford and reputation bleeds in every word.
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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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Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.
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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
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He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
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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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Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set a spell, Prepar'd by arts, to them best known To catch all feet except their own, Who, as to fortune, can unlock it, As easily as pick a pocket.
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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
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