Author: Charles Churchill

Quotes

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

- 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.

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

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

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

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

- Charles Churchill

Genius is independent of situation.

Genius is independent of situation.

- Charles Churchill

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

- Charles Churchill

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