Aaron Hill quotes
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“Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.”
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“Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.”
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill, Colley Cibber, John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1817). “Tragedy of Alzira with the Life of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”, p.14
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“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
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“Trust me--with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds.”
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“Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.”
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.10
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“Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.”
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.21
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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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“Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.”
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“She who means no mischief does it all.”
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill, Urania Hill Johnson (1754). “Poems”, p.135
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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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“Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.”
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill, James Cawthorn, Michael Bruce (1822). “The Poems of Hill, Cawthorn, and Bruce”, p.43
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“Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.”
-- Aaron HillSource : Voltaire, Aaron Hill (1797). “Merope: A Tragedy”, p.50
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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.”
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill (1791). “Alzira: A Tragedy”, p.33
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“Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.”
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“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.”
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.15
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“Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.”
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill (1777). “Alzira: A Tragedy”, p.40
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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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“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 HillSource : Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.411
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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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“Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.”
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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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“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 HillSource : Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.21
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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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“O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.”
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill (1760). “Muses in mourning. Zara, to which is added, an interlude, never before printed. Snake in the grass. Alzira. Saul. Daraxes. Merope. Roman revenge. Insolvent. Some love letters, by the author”, p.147
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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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“Reason gains all people by compelling none.”
-- Aaron HillSource : "Alzira: A Tragedy". Play by Aaron Hill, 1736.
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“Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures: Use 'em kindly, they rebel; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And the rogues obey you well.”
-- Aaron HillSource : 'Verses Written on a Window in Scotland'
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