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

Quote by Charles Churchill

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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 nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Genius is independent of situation.

Genius is independent of situation.

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...

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

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...

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.

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.

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

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...

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

Genius is of no country.

Genius is of no country.

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

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

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.