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

Charles Churchill

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
Poet
Writer
City of Westminster
Leaves
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Constant
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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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The oak, when living, monarch of the wood The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
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By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?
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Patience is sorrow's salve.
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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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To copy faults is want of sense.
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Genius is of no country.
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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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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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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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Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
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Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.
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Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
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Genius is independent of situation.
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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Genius is of no country her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
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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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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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