Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
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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Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession’s phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
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Order, thou eye of action.
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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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Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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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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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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Law that shocks equity is reason’s murderer.
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Trust me–with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds.
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Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.
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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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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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Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another’s sorrow.
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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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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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