| 8 Famous Quotes by Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon
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“Immodest words admit of no defence;
For want of decency is want of sense.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essay on Translated Verse (l. 113)
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“'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end,
Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.”
Punishment Quotes Source: Essay on Translated Verse--Ovid
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“The multitude is always in the wrong.”
Public Quotes Source: Essay on Translated Verse (l. 184)
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“The press, the pulpit, and the stage,
Conspire to censure and expose our age.”
Criticism Quotes Source: Essay on Translated Verse (l. 7)
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“Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey,
Cancel my debt (too great to pay)
Before the sad accounting day.”
Forgiveness Quotes Source: On the Day of Judgment (st. 11)
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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, Earl of Roscomon,”
Faults Quotes Source: Miscellanies--On Mr. Dryden's Religio Laici (l. 8)
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“Immodest words admit of no defence;
For want of decency is want of sense.”
Modesty Quotes Source: Essay on Translated Verse (l. 113)
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“Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault)
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.”
Pride Quotes Source: Essay on Translated Verse (l. 161)
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Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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