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.
    Source: 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.
    Source: 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.
    Source: 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.
    Source: Alzira (1736) Act IV, Scene 1.
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