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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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City of Westminster
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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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Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set a spell, Prepar'd by arts, to them best known To catch all feet except their own, Who, as to fortune, can unlock it, As easily as pick a pocket.
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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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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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Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
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Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.
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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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Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
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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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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
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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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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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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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To copy faults is want of sense.
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Enough of satire in less harden'd times Great was her force, and mighty were her rhymes. I've read of men, beyond man's daring brave, Who yet have trembled at the strokes she gave Whose souls have felt more terrible alarms From her one line, than from a world in arms.
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The oak, when living, monarch of the wood The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
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With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
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If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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