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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
Poet
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City of Westminster
Men
Excel
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Method
Success
Wells
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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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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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He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
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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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To copy faults is want of sense.
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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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The oak, when living, monarch of the wood The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
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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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Patience is sorrow's salve.
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If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
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Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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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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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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It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
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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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Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
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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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Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
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