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And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

Charles Churchill

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
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City of Westminster
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Reputation

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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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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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Genius is of no country.
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Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
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Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford and reputation bleeds in every word.
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It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
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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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Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To boast of apathy when out of pain, And in each sentence, worthy of the schools, Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault That into practice they can ne'er be brought.
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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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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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By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?
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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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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
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Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
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