Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
AARON HILLLet 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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Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.
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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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Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief’s beneath thy shade.
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Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.
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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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Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another’s sorrow.
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O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
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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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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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Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.
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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
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Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession’s phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
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Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.
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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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