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Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.

Charles Churchill

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
Poet
Writer
City of Westminster
Discretion
Hero
Part
Better
Even
Heart

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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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Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford and reputation bleeds in every word.
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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
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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 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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Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
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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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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
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Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing most when most they seem to slight.
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Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
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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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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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The oak, when living, monarch of the wood The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
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