Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
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.
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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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Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.
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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.
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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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Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another’s sorrow.
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Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
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Order, thou eye of action.
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O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
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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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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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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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Trust me–with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds.
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The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
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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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