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Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Age: 48 †
Born: 1637
Born: January 1
Died: 1685
Died: January 18
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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
The multitude is always wrong.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
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
Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
The first great work (a task performed by few) Is that yourself may to yourself be true.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Often try what weight you can support, And what your shoulders are too weak to bear.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
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
Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Whatsoever contradicts my sense, I hate to see, and never can believe.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Beware what spirit rages in your breast for one inspired, ten thousand are possessed.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Words are like leaves some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
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
Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Words once spoken can never be recalled.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon