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Be England what she will,
With all her faults, she is my country still.
Source:...
Little do such men know the toil, the pains,
The daily, nightly racking of the brains,
To range the thoughts,...
Adepts in the speaking trade
Keep a cough by them ready made.
Source: The Ghost,...
The danger chiefly lies in acting well,
No crime's so great as daring to excel.
Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone;
Where he succeeds, the merit's all his...
Old-age, a second child, by Nature curs'd
With more and greater evils than the first,
Weak, sickly, full of...
Genius is independent of situation.
Source: In
A joke's a very serious thing.
Source: The Ghost, Bk. IV
-- Charles Churchill, (...
Patience is sorrow's salve.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
Source: In
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led,
They damn those authors whom they never read.
Most of those evils we poor mortals know
From doctors and imagination flow.
Genius is of no country; her pure ray
Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
The best things carried to excess are wrong.
Source: The Rosciad, 1039
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Keep up appearances; there lies the test
The world will give thee credit for the rest.
With various readings stored his empty skull,
Learn'd without sense, and venerably...
So loud each tongue, so empty was each head,
So much they talked, so very little said.
Who often, but without success, have prayed
For apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Statesman all over, in plots famous grown,
He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.