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Charles Churchill

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
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City of Westminster
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Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.
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And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
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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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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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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
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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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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford and reputation bleeds in every word.
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Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
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With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
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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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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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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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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
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Patience is sorrow's salve.
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Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.
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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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