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He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
Charles Churchill
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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
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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.
Charles Churchill
If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
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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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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
Charles Churchill
By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?
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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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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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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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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To boast of apathy when out of pain, And in each sentence, worthy of the schools, Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault That into practice they can ne'er be brought.
Charles Churchill
Genius is of no country.
Charles Churchill
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.
Charles Churchill
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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And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
Charles Churchill