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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
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With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
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Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
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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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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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Genius is independent of situation.
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Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.
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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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Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
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Patience is sorrow's salve.
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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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To copy faults is want of sense.
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He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
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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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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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Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford and reputation bleeds in every word.
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The oak, when living, monarch of the wood The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
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He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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Genius is of no country.
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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
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