Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.
AARON HILLThe man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
More Aaron Hill Quotes
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.
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The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
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Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.
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When Christ at Cana’s feast by pow’r divine, Inspir’d cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry’d they while, in red’ning tide, it gush’d, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush’d.
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The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
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Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession’s phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
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O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.
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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
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Order, thou eye of action.
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Law that shocks equity is reason’s murderer.
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Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief’s beneath thy shade.
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