Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon famous quotes

Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Punishment #Remember #Timber

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.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Knees #Bows #Savages

Those things which now seem frivolous and slight, Will be of serious consequence to you, When they have made you once ridiculous.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Serious #Ridiculous #Made

Often try what weight you can support, And what your shoulders are too weak to bear.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Exercise #Support #Trying

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Uniforms #Fiction #Pieces

Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Hero #Fading #Former

Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Judgment #Invention #Results

Whatsoever contradicts my sense, I hate to see, and never can believe.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Hate #Believe #I Hate

Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Grief #Soul #Tortured Souls

Beware what spirit rages in your breast; for one inspired, ten thousand are possessed.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Spirit #Inspired #Rage

Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Writing #Style #World

You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Art #Style #Gains

The first great work (a task performed by few) Is that yourself may to yourself be true.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Truth #May #Firsts

Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Race #Years #Succeed

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Writing #Sound #Judgment

The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Lasts #Sound #Resurrection

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.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Men #Cost #He Man

Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Shining #Care #Speech

The multitude is always wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Multitudes

Words once spoken can never be recalled.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Gossip

I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Mistake #May #Excuse

Choose an author as you would a friend.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Library

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Want #Defence #Decency

... truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Truth #Shining #Dresses

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Criticism #Age #Pulpit

Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Angel #Men #Faults

Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Pride #Faults #Want

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Thinking #Style #Satire

We weep and laugh, as we see others do.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Laughing #Weeping

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Change #May