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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
Slander
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He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person, manner, and the grace, Which fools neglect so that we find, If all the requisites are join'd, From whence a perfect joke must spring, A joke's a very serious thing.
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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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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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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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Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
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If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
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Genius is independent of situation.
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Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing most when most they seem to slight.
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Patience is sorrow's salve.
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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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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
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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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Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.
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With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
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Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.
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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
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