Quotes by Aaron Hill

Aaron Hill

English dramatist and writer

Lived from: 1685 - 1750

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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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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  • Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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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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  • Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
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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.
    Zara (1735)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
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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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  • Reason gains all men, by compelling none.
    Mercy was always Heaven's distinguished mark:
    And he, who bears it not, has no friend there.
    Alzira (1736) Act I, Sc. 1
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  • Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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  • Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
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  • She has an eye that could speak, though her tongue were silent.
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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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  • The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
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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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  • There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood.
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  • You talk no more of that gay nation now,
    Where men adore their wives, and woman's power
    Draws reverence from a polished people's softness,
    Their husbands' equals, and their lovers' queens;
    Free without scandal; wise without restraint;
    Their virtue due to nature, not to fear.
    Zara (1735) Act I, Sc. 1.
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  • Youth is ever apt to judge in haste,
    And lose the medium in the wild extreme,
    Do not repent, but regulate your passion:
    Though love is reason, its excess is rage.
    Give me, at least, your promise to reflect,
    In cool, impartial solitude, and still.
    No last decision till we meet again.
    Alzira (1736) Act IV, Scene 1.
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What are the most famous quotes from Aaron Hill?

The two most famous quotes from Aaron Hill are:

  • "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."
  • "Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth."

When did Aaron Hill live?

Aaron Hill was born in 1685 and died in the year 1750.