Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
AARON HILLJoys, which we do not know, we do not wish.
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Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession’s phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
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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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Order, thou eye of action.
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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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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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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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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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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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Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief’s beneath thy shade.
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Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another’s sorrow.
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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Law that shocks equity is reason’s murderer.
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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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Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.
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Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.
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