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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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• Patience is sorrow's salve.

  Charles Churchill

  Patience, Sorrow

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

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• Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.

  Charles Churchill

  Envy, Raises, Censure

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• With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.

  Charles Churchill

  Envy, Pale, Turns

  Charles Churchill (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churcill: With memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.6

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Pain, Wine, School

  Charles Churchill (1855). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes”, p.377

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• Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.

  Charles Churchill

  Speak, Cowardice, Familiar

  Charles Churchill (1774). “The Works of C. Churchill”, p.23

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• Nature, through all her works, in great degree,
  Borrows a blessing from variety.
  Music itself her needful aid requires
  To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.

  Charles Churchill

  Blessing, Fire, Soul

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1844). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.142, London : W. Pickering

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• All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.

  Charles Churchill

  Mistake, Way, Fame

  Charles Churchill (1772). “The Rosciad ... The eighth edition. With large additions. To which is added, The Smithfield Rosciad”, p.19

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• The virtuous to those mansions go
  Where pleasures unembitter'd flow,
  Where, leading up a jocund band,
  Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand,
  Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales,
  Pipes softest music through the vales,
  And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd,
  With velvet carpet spread the ground;
  With livelier blush where roses bloom,
  And every shrub expires perfume.

  Charles Churchill

  Spring, Hands, Rose

  Charles Churchill (1762). “The Ghost”, p.38

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• Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

  Charles Churchill

  Writing, Aids, Alliteration

  Charles Churchill (1763). “The Prophecy of Famine: A Scots Pastoral”, p.5

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• What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall,
  Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all.
  Let muckworms who in dirty acres deal,
  Lament those hardships which we cannot feel,
  His grace who smarts, may bellow if he please,
  But must I bellow too, who sit at ease?
  By custom safe, the poets' numbers flow,
  Free as the light and air some years ago.
  No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains
  To tax our labours, and excise our brains.
  Burthens like these with earthly buildings bear,
  No tributes laid on castles in the air.

  Charles Churchill

  Pain, Smart, Dirty

  Charles Churchill (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke”, p.89

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• Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

  Charles Churchill

  Genius, Enthusiasm

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• Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.

  Charles Churchill

  Criticism, Reason, Disputes

  Charles Churchill, James L. Hannay (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke”, p.66

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• Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.

  Charles Churchill

  Brother, Forgiving, Dunces

  Charles Churchill, James L. Hannay (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke”, p.124

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• Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.

  Charles Churchill

  Blow, Wind, Wave

  Charles Churchill, James Hannay (1866). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay”, p.228

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• The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?

  Charles Churchill

  Pride, Scotland, Cry

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.68

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• England, a happy land we know,
  Where follies naturally grow,
  Where without culture they arise,
  And tow'r above the common size.

  Charles Churchill

  Land, Culture, Size

  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”, p.143

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

  Charles Churchill

  Want, Faults, Fame

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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.

  Charles Churchill

  Men, Brave, Soul

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.164

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