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In matters of commerce the fa...

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

George Canning 35 quotes

Needy knife-grinder! whither ...

Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.

George Canning 35 quotes

Active beneficence is a virtu...

Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater and more difficult exercise of magnanimity, for the one party to act as if he had forgotten, or for the other as if he constantly remembered the obligation.

George Canning 35 quotes

If hush'd the loud whirlwind ...

If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!

George Canning 35 quotes

When our perils are past, sha...

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

George Canning 35 quotes

Man, only - rash, refined, pr...

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

George Canning 35 quotes

Away with the cant of 'Measur...

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

George Canning 35 quotes

A steady patriot of the world...

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

George Canning 35 quotes

Indecision and delays are the...

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

George Canning 35 quotes

Here's to the pilot that weat...

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

George Canning 35 quotes

But of all plagues, good Heav...

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

George Canning 35 quotes

Whene'er with haggard eyes I ...

Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.

George Canning 35 quotes

When our perils are past, shal...

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

George Canning 35 quotes

Man, only - rash, refined, pre...

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

George Canning 35 quotes

Needy knife-grinder! whither a...

Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.

George Canning 35 quotes

If hush'd the loud whirlwind t...

If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!

George Canning 35 quotes

Whene'er with haggard eyes I v...

Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.

George Canning 35 quotes

Active beneficence is a virtue...

Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater and more difficult exercise of magnanimity, for the one party to act as if he had forgotten, or for the other as if he constantly remembered the obligation.

George Canning 35 quotes

But of all plagues, good Heave...

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

George Canning 35 quotes

In matters of commerce the fau...

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

George Canning 35 quotes

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