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Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another’s sorrow.

Aaron Hill

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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Coward Experience Hero Merit Pass Strength Trial
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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Apt Haste Judging Medium Wild Youth
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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Bold Complex Fate First Life Passion Say Shall
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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Belief Birth Consequence Moral Place
Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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Compelling Gain People Reason
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession’s phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
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Ancestor Courage Need Phlegm Self Shadow Succession
Order, thou eye of action.
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Action Eye Order
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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Courage Dwell Lion Number Poor Weight
She who means no mischief does it all.
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All Doe Mean Mischief She
Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.
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Awake Hands Heart Mind Sympathy Union
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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Deceit Deception False Happiness Joy Road Touch Vice
Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another’s sorrow.
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Adoption Breast Melt Shame Soft Sorrow Stone Tear
Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
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Branche Evil Grow Malice Tree
Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.
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Adorn Charity Feel Mind Shining Zeal
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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Cana Christ Cold Divine Feast Red Water Wine
Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief’s beneath thy shade.
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Mischief Night Shade Thou Treacherous Veil

Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another’s sorrow.

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