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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
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City of Westminster
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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.
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Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
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He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To boast of apathy when out of pain, And in each sentence, worthy of the schools, Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault That into practice they can ne'er be brought.
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Genius is of no country her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
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If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
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England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea.
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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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Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.
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Genius is of no country.
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Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
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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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Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.
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