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Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon quotes: The multitude is always wrong.

The multitude is always wrong.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.

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

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

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon quotes: Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul.

Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul.

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

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

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon quotes: We weep and laugh, as we see others do.

We weep and laugh, as we see others do.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon quotes: Choose an author as you would a friend.

Choose an author as you would a friend.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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