Best 22 quotes of Wentworth Dillon on MyQuotes

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

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

Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

We weep and laugh, as we see others do.

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

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

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