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The multitude is always wrong.

The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.

Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays.

Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul.

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.

We weep and laugh, as we see others do.

Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults.

Beware what spirit rages in your breast; for one inspired, ten thousand are possessed.

Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.

Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed.

Choose an author as you would a friend.

Whatsoever contradicts my sense,
I hate to see, and never can believe.

Often try what weight you can support,
And what your shoulders are too weak to bear.

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.

Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment.

Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

Those things which now seem frivolous and slight,
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous.

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.

The first great work (a task performed by few)
Is that yourself may to yourself be true.

You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.

I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.

Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.