Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another’s sorrow.
AARON HILLServile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
More Aaron Hill Quotes
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Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.
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Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
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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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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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Order, thou eye of action.
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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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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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Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.
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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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Law that shocks equity is reason’s murderer.
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O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
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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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Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.
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Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
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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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