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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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• To copy faults is want of sense.

  Charles Churchill

  Want, Faults, Copies

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

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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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• Childhood, who like an April morn appears,
  Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with fears.

  Charles Churchill

  Children, Rain, Sunshine

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.137

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• Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.

  Charles Churchill

  Mirth, Reputation, Slander

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.38

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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.

  Charles Churchill

  Art, Feet, Hens

  Charles Churchill, “The Ghost - Book I”

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• He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

  Charles Churchill

  Oratory, Mouths, Bones

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.51

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• The stage I chose--a subject fair and free--
  'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property.
  All common exhibitions open lie,
  For praise or censure, to the common eye.
  Hence are a thousand hackney writers fed;
  Hence monthly critics earn their daily bread.
  This is a general tax which all must pay,
  From those who scribble, down to those who play.

  Charles Churchill

  Lying, Eye, Play

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.43

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• Those who would make us feel must feel themselves.

  Charles Churchill

  Attitude, Feels

  'The Rosciad' (1761) l. 961

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• This a sacred rule we find
  Among the nicest of mankind,
  (Which never might exception brook
  From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,)
  To doubt of facts, however true,
  Unless they know the causes too.

  Charles Churchill

  Doubt, Might, Sacred

  Charles Churchill (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churcill: With memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.239

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• Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

  Charles Churchill

  Land, Knavery, Knaves

  Charles Churchill (1855). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes”, p.223

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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.

  Charles Churchill

  Truth, Lying, Believe

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.89

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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.

  Charles Churchill

  Purple, Shining, Vices

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill ...”, p.77

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• Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.

  Charles Churchill

  Country, Faults, England

  The Farewell l. 27 (1764)

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• The best things carried to excess are wrong.

  Charles Churchill

  Excess, Best Things

  Charles Churchill (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churcill: With memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.35

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• The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

  Charles Churchill

  Lying, Acting, Crime

  'An Epistle to William Hogarth' (1763) l. 51

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• Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

  Charles Churchill

  Genius, Enthusiasm

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• Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

  Charles Churchill

  Pain, Farewell, Men

  Charles Churchill, Robert Southey (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.106

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• Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

  Charles Churchill

  Son, Men, Justice

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.109

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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.

  Charles Churchill

  Spring, Humor, Hands

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1804). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.200

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• The more haste, ever the worst speed.

  Charles Churchill

  Haste, Speed, Worst

  Charles Churchill, Robert Southey (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.66

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• Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

  Charles Churchill

  Fool, Dunces, Folly

  Charles Churchill, James L. Hannay (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke”, p.64

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• Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.

  Charles Churchill

  Country, Rays, Genius

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

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• Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.

  Charles Churchill

  Envy, Raises, Censure

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• It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

  Charles Churchill

  'The Farewell' (1764) l. 200

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