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Charles Churchill [1731-1764] English

Rank: 101
Poet

Charles Churchill, was an English poet and satirist.

Quote	Tags	Rank
Genius is independent of situation.	Intelligence	101
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.		102
A joke's a very serious thing.	Humor	103
The best things carried to excess are wrong.		104
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.	Beauty	105
Patience is sorrow's salve.	Patience	106
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.		107
Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.		108
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.		109
Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.		110
Genius is of no country.		111
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.		112
Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.		113
It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.		114

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