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And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

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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Bleeds
Reputation

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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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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
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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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By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?
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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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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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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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Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
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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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Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.
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Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught, Is all her malice worth a single thought. The wise have not the will, nor fools the power, To stop her headstrong course within the hour Left to herself, she dies opposing strife Gives her fresh vigor, and prolongs her life.
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If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
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Genius is independent of situation.
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Patience is sorrow's salve.
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Genius is of no country her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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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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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
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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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