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O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

Aaron Hill

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
AARON HILL

First Man Path Pause Step Treason
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
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.
AARON HILL

Bold Complex Fate First Life Passion Say Shall
Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.
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Circle Ivy Man Men Oak Woman
Trust me–with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds.
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Lover Me Succeed Trust Women Worth
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
AARON HILL

Deceit Deception False Happiness Joy Road Touch Vice
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
Law that shocks equity is reason’s murderer.
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Equity Law Murderer Reason Shock
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
Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
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Branche Evil Grow Malice Tree
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
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Arguing Doubt Meet Mind Misfortune Servile
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
Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.
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Joy Know Wish
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
AARON HILL

Exaggerate Head Idea Man Sure
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.
AARON HILL

Depend Safe Sound Will Wisdom Wise Woman
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

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

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