"Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice……" — Charles Churchill
"Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail."
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51 Quotes by Charles Churchill
Charles Churchill has 51 quotes on this site.
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Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
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Those who would make us feel must feel themselves.
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Genius is independent of situation.
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No tribute is laid on castles in the air.
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
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Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies,…
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He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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Genius is of no country.
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The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the…
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Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
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When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded…
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More Exhausts Quotes
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did…
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A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.
— Joe Torre
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Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient…
— Aaron T. Beck
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Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains…
— Geneen Roth
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I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a…
— Blaise Cendrars
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Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts…
— Andrew Solomon
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Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need…
— Marion D. Hanks
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men -…
— John Ruskin
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Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every…
— William Whewell
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Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for…
— Robert McKee
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