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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.
Charles Churchill
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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
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City of Westminster
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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 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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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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It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
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Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
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Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.
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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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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
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Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
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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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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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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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If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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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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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
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