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Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford and reputation bleeds in every word.

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
Poet
Writer
City of Westminster
Quick
Afford
Reputation
Word
Slanders
Every
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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
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If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
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Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb.
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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 best things carried to excess are wrong.
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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.
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The oak, when living, monarch of the wood The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
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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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Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.
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With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
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Genius is of no country her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
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