Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.
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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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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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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Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief’s beneath thy shade.
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Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.
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Law that shocks equity is reason’s murderer.
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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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Order, thou eye of action.
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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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Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.
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Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another’s sorrow.
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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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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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O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
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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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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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