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The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

Aaron Hill

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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Bold Complex Fate First Life Passion Say Shall
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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Deceit Deception False Happiness Joy Road Touch Vice
Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.
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Circle Ivy Man Men Oak Woman
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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Courage Dwell Lion Number Poor Weight
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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Cana Christ Cold Divine Feast Red Water Wine
Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
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Art Deceiving Innocent Look
Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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Compelling Gain People Reason
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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Apt Haste Judging Medium Wild Youth
Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.
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Joy Know Wish
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
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Alone Curse Hand Heart Marriage Matrimony Thine
Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself–for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.
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Ague Created Fear Men Nature Passion Shun Soul
Law that shocks equity is reason’s murderer.
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Equity Law Murderer Reason Shock
She who means no mischief does it all.
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All Doe Mean Mischief She
Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
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Branche Evil Grow Malice Tree
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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Flowing Giving Heart Nature Proud Tear Virtue
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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Exaggerate Head Idea Man Sure

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

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