Top 28 Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon Quotes
#1. Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.
#2. Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays.
#3. Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
#4. Choose an author as you would a friend.
#5. The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.
#6. The multitude is always wrong.
#7. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.
#8. You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.
#9. Those things which now seem frivolous and slight,
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous.
#10. Praise Him, each savage furious beast
That on His stores do daily feast;
And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough,
Your weary knees to your Creator bow.
#11. Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.
#12. Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul.
#13. Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.
#14. You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.
#15. Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed.
#16. Whatsoever contradicts my sense,
I hate to see, and never can believe.
#17. I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.
#18. Often try what weight you can support,
And what your shoulders are too weak to bear.
#19. The first great work (a task performed by few)
Is that yourself may to yourself be true.
#20. Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment.
#21. Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults.
#22. Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
#23. The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.
#24. Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.
#25. What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
#26. Beware what spirit rages in your breast; for one inspired, ten thousand are possessed.
#27. We weep and laugh, as we see others do.
#28. The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.
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