Charles Churchill Quotes

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• Genius is of no country.

  Charles Churchill

  Country, Genius

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.47

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• Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd
  And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

  Charles Churchill

  Play, Listening, Wonder

  Charles Churchill (1892). “The Poetical Works of Charles, Churchill”

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• Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound,
  Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.

  Charles Churchill

  Thrones, Virtue, Weak

  Charles Churchill (1772). “Poems: By Charles Churchill. In Three Volumes. With Large Corrections and Additions. To which is Added, the Life of the Author. Adorned with Cuts”

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• A joke's a very serious thing.

  Charles Churchill

  Humor, Serious Things, Serious

  'The Ghost' (1763) bk. 4, l. 1386

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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.

  Charles Churchill

  Health, Science, Doctors

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• Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

  Charles Churchill

  Lying, Giving, Credit

  'Night' (1761) l. 311

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• The villager, born humbly and bred hard,
  Content his wealth, and poverty his guard,
  In action simply just, in conscience clear,
  By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear,
  His means but scanty, and his wants but few,
  Labor his business, and his pleasure too,
  Enjoys more comforts in a single hour
  Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power.

  Charles Churchill

  Mean, Giving, Guilt

  Charles Churchill (1783). “The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author”, p.90

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• The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

  Charles Churchill

  Religion, Saint, Mercy

  Charles Churchill (1779). “The Poetical Works of Cha. Churchill in Three Volumes: With the Life of the Author”, p.105

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• By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?

  Charles Churchill

  Success, Men, Different

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.98

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• In the first seat, in robe of various dyes,
  A noble wildness flashing from his eyes,
  Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a wand he bore,
  For mighty wonders fam'd in days of yore:
  The other held a globe, which to his will
  Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill:
  Things of the noblest kind his genius drew,
  And look'd through nature at a single view:
  A loose he gave to his unbounded soul,
  And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll;
  Call'd into being scenes unknown before,
  And passing nature's bounds, was something more.

  Charles Churchill

  Eye, Views, Hands

  Charles Churchill (1764). “Poems”, p.12

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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.

  Charles Churchill

  Mean, Men, Use

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.61

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• Fame is nothing but an empty name.

  Charles Churchill

  Names, Paganism, Fame

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1804). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.24

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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.

  Charles Churchill

  Pain, Children, Evil

  'Gotham' (1764) bk. 1, l. 215

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• With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

  Charles Churchill

  Art, Brain, Curiosity

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1844). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.252, London : W. Pickering

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• The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.

  Charles Churchill

  Law, Lawyer, Suspects

  Charles Churchill, James Hannay (1866). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay”, p.240

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• If you mean to profit, learn to praise.

  Charles Churchill

  Mean, Flattery, Praise

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• Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

  Charles Churchill

  Doctors, Evil, Imagination

  The Prophecy of Famine (1763)

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• On the four aces doom'd to roll.

  Charles Churchill

  Four, Aces, Doom

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.102

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• Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.

  Charles Churchill

  Couple, Men, Wife

  'The Rosciad' (1761) l. 1005

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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.

  Charles Churchill

  Stars, Fate, Tea

  Charles Churchill (1766). “Poems ...: In Two Volumes”, p.166

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• To copy faults is want of sense.

  Charles Churchill

  Want, Faults, Copies

  Charles Churchill (1766). “Poems”, p.19

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• Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

  Charles Churchill

  Envy, Criticism, Resentment

  'The Candidate' (1764) l. 57

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• The proud will sooner lose than ask their way.

  Charles Churchill

  Pride, Proud, Way

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• And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

  Charles Churchill

  Reputation

  Charles Churchill (1774). “The Rosciad. The apology. The prophecy of famine, a Scots pastoral. An epistle to William Hogarth. The ghost. book 1-2”, p.57

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• Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

  Charles Churchill

  Fashion, Knavery, Use

  1761 The Rosciad, l.455-6.

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