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.
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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Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.
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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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Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.
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Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.
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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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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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First, then, a woman will, or won’t, – depend on’t; If she will do’t, she will; and there’s an end on’t. But, if she won’t, since safe and sound your trust is, Fear is affront: and jealousy injustice.
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
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Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession’s phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
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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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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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Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
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She who means no mischief does it all.
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