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Charles Churchill quotes: Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
Charles Churchill quotes: Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow. Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.
Charles Churchill quotes: It can't be Nature, for it is not sense. It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
Charles Churchill quotes: No tribute is laid on castles in the air. No tribute is laid on castles in the air.
Charles Churchill quotes: Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends. Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
Charles Churchill quotes: Even in a hero's heartDiscretion is the better part. Even in a hero's heart
Discretion is the better part.
Charles Churchill quotes: Genius is independent of situation. Genius is independent of situation.
Charles Churchill quotes: The best things carried to excess are wrong. The best things carried to excess are wrong.
Charles Churchill quotes: Drawn by conceit from reason's planHow vain is that poor creature man;How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elfTo grate about that thing himself. Drawn by conceit from reason's plan
How vain is that poor creature man;
How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf
To grate about that thing himself.
Charles Churchill quotes: Fashiona word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. Fashion
a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
Charles Churchill quotes: With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
Charles Churchill quotes: Genius is of no country. Genius is of no country.
Charles Churchill quotes: Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce. Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
Charles Churchill quotes: Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm. Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.
Charles Churchill quotes: Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own. Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
Charles Churchill quotes: The more haste, ever the worst speed. The more haste, ever the worst speed.
Charles Churchill quotes: 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. 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 quotes: To copy faults is want of sense. To copy faults is want of sense.
Charles Churchill quotes: 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 ... 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
Charles Churchill quotes: Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Charles Churchill quotes: Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail. 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 quotes: Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor. Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
Charles Churchill quotes: All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way. All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.
Charles Churchill quotes: Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
Charles Churchill quotes: Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind. Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
Charles Churchill quotes: Knaves starve not in the land of fools. Knaves starve not in the land of fools.
Charles Churchill quotes: Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound,Which takes not solid virtue for its ground. Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound,
Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
Charles Churchill quotes: Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air. Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
Charles Churchill quotes: With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
Charles Churchill quotes: Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own. Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.
Charles Churchill quotes: On the four aces doom'd to roll. On the four aces doom'd to roll.
Charles Churchill quotes: Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest. Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
Charles Churchill quotes: The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect. The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.
Charles Churchill quotes: Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word. Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.
Charles Churchill quotes: If honor calls, where'er she points the wayThe sons of honor follow, and obey. If honor calls, where'er she points the way
The sons of honor follow, and obey.
Charles Churchill quotes: Fame is nothing but an empty name. Fame is nothing but an empty name.
Charles Churchill quotes: Childhood, who like an April morn appears,Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with fears. Childhood, who like an April morn appears,
Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with fears.
Charles Churchill quotes: The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel. The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
Charles Churchill quotes: Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife. Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
Charles Churchill quotes: And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word. And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
Charles Churchill quotes: Those who raise envy will easily incur censure. Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.
Charles Churchill quotes: The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
Charles Churchill quotes: Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day. Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
Charles Churchill quotes: Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid. Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Charles Churchill quotes: Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'dAnd wonder'd at the work herself had made. Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd
And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
Charles Churchill quotes: With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.
Charles Churchill quotes: Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill. Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
Charles Churchill quotes: By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well? By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?
Charles Churchill quotes: England, a happy land we know,Where follies naturally grow,Where without culture they arise,And tow'r above the common size. England, a happy land we know,
Where follies naturally grow,
Where without culture they arise,
And tow'r above the common size.
Charles Churchill quotes: A joke's a very serious thing. A joke's a very serious thing.
Charles Churchill quotes: Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
Charles Churchill quotes: Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame. Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
Charles Churchill quotes: To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense. To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
Charles Churchill quotes: Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still. Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
Charles Churchill quotes: The proud will sooner lose than ask their way. The proud will sooner lose than ask their way.
Charles Churchill quotes: He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone. He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
Charles Churchill quotes: The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own. The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

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