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Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.

Charles Churchill

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
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City of Westminster
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?
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Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
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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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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
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