The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘Poems’ (1703) ‘To the Ladies’
Then shun, oh! shun that wretched state
And all the fawning flatterers hate:
Value yourselves, and men despise
You must be proud if you’ll be wise.
‘Poems’ (1703) ‘To the Ladies’ (on marriage)
3.96 Charles Churchill 1731-64
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led,
They damn those authors whom they never read.
‘The Candidate’ (1764) l. 57
The only difference, after all their rout,
Is, that the one is in, the other out.
‘The Conference’ (1763) l. 165
The danger chiefly lies in acting well;
No crime’s so great as daring to excel.
‘An Epistle to William Hogarth’ (1763) l. 51
Be England what she will,
With all her faults, she is my country still.
‘The Farewell’ (1764) l. 27.
It can’t be Nature, for it is not sense.
‘The Farewell’ (1764) l. 200
England—a happy land we know,
Where follies naturally grow.
‘The Ghost’ (1763) bk. 1, l. 111
And adepts in the speaking trade
Keep a cough by them ready made.
‘The Ghost’ (1763) bk. 2, l. 545
Just to the windward of the law.
‘The Ghost’ (1763) bk. 3, l. 56
He for subscribers baits his hook,
And takes your cash; but where’s the book?
No matter where; wise fear, you know,
Forbids the robbing of a foe;
But what, to serve our private ends,
Forbids the cheating of our friends?
‘The Ghost’ (1763) bk. 3, l. 801 (satirizing Samuel Johnson)
A joke’s a very serious thing.
‘The Ghost’ (1763) bk. 4, l. 1386
Happy, thrice happy now the savage race,