Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

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Patience is sorrow's salve.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

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

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.

Genius is of no country; her pure ray / Spreads all abroad, as general as...

Genius is of no country; her pure ray / Spreads all abroad, as general as...

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

Genius is independent of situation.

Genius is independent of situation.

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the...

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the...

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

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

Statesman all over, in plots famous grown, He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a...

Statesman all over, in plots famous grown, He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a...

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Genius is of no country.

Genius is of no country.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the...

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the...