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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
Bleeds
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The oak, when living, monarch of the wood The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
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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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Genius is of no country.
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Genius is of no country her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
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Genius is independent of situation.
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When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.
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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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What is this world?--A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what A term, which with no more precision passes To point out herds of men than herds of asses In common use no more it means, we find, Than many fools in same opinions joined.
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To copy faults is want of sense.
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Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
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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 mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
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No two on earth in all things can agree All have some darling singularity Women and men, as well as girls and boys, In gewgaws take delight, and sigh for toys, Your sceptres and your crowns, and such like things, Are but a better kind of toys for kings. In things indifferent reason bids us choose, Whether the whim's a monkey or a muse.
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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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By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?
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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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