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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
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To copy faults is want of sense.
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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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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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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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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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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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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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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 best things carried to excess are wrong.
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Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
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Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
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Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
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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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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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Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
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Genius is independent of situation.
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