The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
AARON HILLMan is the circled oak; woman the ivy.
More Aaron Hill Quotes
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Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
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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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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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Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.
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Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession’s phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
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Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.
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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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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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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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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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O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
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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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Law that shocks equity is reason’s murderer.
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Order, thou eye of action.
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