Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another’s sorrow.
AARON HILL
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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Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another’s sorrow.
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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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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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O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
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Law that shocks equity is reason’s murderer.
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Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.
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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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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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Order, thou eye of action.
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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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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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Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief’s beneath thy shade.
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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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She who means no mischief does it all.
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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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