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Charles Churchill
English
Poet
About the author
The best things carried to excess are wrong.
Charles Churchill,
English
Poet
#Wrong
#Excess
Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
Charles Churchill,
English
Poet
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Charles Churchill,
English
Poet
#Envy
#Whim
#Resentment
Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
Charles Churchill,
English
Poet
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
Charles Churchill,
English
Poet
#Want
#Sense
#Beauty
#Fame
#Faults
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
Charles Churchill,
English
Poet
#Acting
#Crime
#Danger
#Lies
Patience is sorrow's salve.
Charles Churchill,
English
Poet
#Patience
#Sorrow
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,
English
Poet
#Men
#Rest
#Thoughts
Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
Charles Churchill,
English
Poet
#Will
#World
#Rest
#Lies
#Credit
It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
Charles Churchill,
English
Poet
#Sense
#Nature
Genius is of no country.
Charles Churchill,
English
Poet
#Country
#Genius
Genius is independent of situation.
Charles Churchill,
English
Poet
#Genius
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
Charles Churchill,
English
Poet
#Will
#Country
#EnglFaults