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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
Men
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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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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
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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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It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
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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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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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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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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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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.
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Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
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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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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.
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Genius is of no country her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
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Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
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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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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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