Authorship Quote by Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

“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.” quote by Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon — Download Open image

“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

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

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Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul.

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

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

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We weep and laugh, as we see others do.

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

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... truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

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

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

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The multitude is always wrong.

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

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

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Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

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That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published,…

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