The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Quote by Charles Churchill

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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 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.

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...

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...

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.

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 nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

Genius is independent of situation.

Genius is independent of situation.

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

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

Genius is of no country.

Genius is of no country.

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

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...

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.