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By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?
Charles Churchill
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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
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If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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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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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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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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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
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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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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
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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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Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.
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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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Genius is of no country her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
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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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With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
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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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