Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Quotes

• Choose an author as you would a friend.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Library

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

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Truth, Tasks, May

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• 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

  Sound, Lasts, Resurrection

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• 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

  Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1684). “An essay on translated verse”, p.11

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• 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, Dresses, Care

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

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Want, Modesty, Defence

  'Essay on Translated Verse' (1684) l. 113

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

  Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1749). “The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon”, p.46

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• 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, Ends

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• Words once spoken can never be recalled.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Gossip

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

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Criticism, Age, Pulpit

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• Truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Truth, Shining, Dresses

  "An Essay on Translated Verse" by Wentworth Dillon, line 216, 1684.

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

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Hate, Believe, I Hate

  Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1749). “The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon”, p.189

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• 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, Want, Faults

  Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1749). “The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon”, p.25

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

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Spirit, Inspired, Rage

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

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Judgment, Invention, Results

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

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Hero, Fading, Former

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

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Fiction, Pieces, Uniforms

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• 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

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• We weep and laugh, as we see others do.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Laughing, Weeping

  Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1749). “The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon”, p.157

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• The multitude is always wrong.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Multitudes, Always Wrong

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• 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

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• Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Writing, Sound, Judgment

  Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1749). “The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon”, p.229

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• 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

  Savages, Knees, Bows

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