Charles Churchill — English Poet died on December 29, 1764

The best things carried to excess are wrong.
Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
Patience is sorrow's salve.
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.