Great use they have, when in the hands Charles Churchill More Quotes by Charles Churchill More Quotes From Charles Churchill No tribute is laid on castles in the air. Charles Churchill castles building air With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. Charles Churchill pale turns envy Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. Charles Churchill dunces folly fool Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. Charles Churchill knavery fashion use Those who raise envy will easily incur censure. Charles Churchill censure envy raises Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own. Charles Churchill justice men son 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 criticism race school The more haste, ever the worst speed. Charles Churchill haste speed worst 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 dumb truth letters The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel. Charles Churchill crime acting lying It can't be Nature, for it is not sense. Charles Churchill The best things carried to excess are wrong. Charles Churchill best-things excess Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. Charles Churchill rapture prose poet No two on earth in all things can agree; Charles Churchill girl kings boys All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way. Charles Churchill mistake fame way 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 purple shining vices Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind. Charles Churchill blank mind attention The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. Charles Churchill command woods flood Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway Charles Churchill wise giving men Drawn by conceit from reason's plan Charles Churchill poor reason men
