Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
Charles Churchill
Genius is independent of situation.
Charles Churchill
Genius is of no country.
Charles Churchill
It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
Charles Churchill
Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
Charles Churchill
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
Patience is sorrow's salve.
Charles Churchill
Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
Charles Churchill
The best things carried to excess are wrong.
Charles Churchill
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
Charles Churchill
Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
Charles Churchill
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Charles Churchill
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
Charles Churchill
Related Authors
Alexander Pope, William Blake, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Wordsworth, W. H. Auden, John Milton, John Gay
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Biography
Type: Poet
Nationality: English
Born: 1731
Died: 1764
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