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

Charles Churchill

'The Farewell' (1764) l. 200

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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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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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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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Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Charles Churchill

Genius, Enthusiasm

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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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To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense

Charles Churchill

Want, Faults, Fame

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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

Charles Churchill

Friendship, Hurt, Dread

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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Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.

Charles Churchill

Air, Desert, Waste

Charles Churchill (1782). “The Beauties of Churchill, Containing All the Celebrated Poems”, p.116

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He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

Charles Churchill

Hurt, Praise, Hurt Me

Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.83

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Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

Charles Churchill

Fear, Men, Guilt

Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.193

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No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

Charles Churchill

Air, Castles, Building

Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.166

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Genius is independent of situation.

Charles Churchill

Independent, Genius, Situation

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With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

Charles Churchill

Stupid, Reading, Skulls

Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.20

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Patience is sorrow's salve.

Charles Churchill

Patience, Sorrow

Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.246

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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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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.

Charles Churchill

Truth, Dumb, Letters

Charles Churchill, James Hannay (1866). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay”, p.116

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A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.

Charles Churchill

School, Race, Criticism

Charles Churchill (1776). “Poems”, p.17

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When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.

Charles Churchill

Wings, Giving, Age

Charles Churchill, Robert Southey (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.177

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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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Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.

Charles Churchill

Poet, Rapture, Prose

Charles Churchill (1774). “Works”, p.206

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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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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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Died: November 4, 1764
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