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By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
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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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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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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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Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.
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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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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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If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
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Within the brain's most secret cells, A certain lord chief justice dwells, Of sov'reign power, whom one and all, With common voice we reason call.
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Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
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With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
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Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
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Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.
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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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Genius is independent of situation.
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Genius is of no country her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
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Patience is sorrow's salve.
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