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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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Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
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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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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
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