Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
AARON HILLWhen 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.
More Aaron Hill Quotes
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O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
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Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
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Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature’s mark to know an honest heart by.
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There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.
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Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.
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Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession’s phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
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Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.
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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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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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Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
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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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She who means no mischief does it all.
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Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another’s sorrow.
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Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.
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