Aaron Hill Quotes

• 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

  Joy, Deception, Vices

  Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.21

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• Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.

  Aaron Hill

  Heart, Hands, Mind

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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.

  Aaron Hill

  Distance, Writing, Mean

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

  Aaron Hill

  Men, Path, Firsts

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• Reason gains all people by compelling none.

  Aaron Hill

  People, Gains, Reason

  "Alzira: A Tragedy". Play by Aaron Hill, 1736.

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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.

  Aaron Hill

  Men, Ideas, He Man

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• Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

  Aaron Hill

  Art, Looks, Deceiving

  Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.64

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• Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.

  Aaron Hill

  Joy, Wish, Knows

  Thomas Otway, Aaron Hill, Nicholas Rowe, Arthur Murphy (1817). “Tragedy of the Orphan; Or, the Unhappy Marriage with a Critique by Richard Cumberland”

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• Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

  Aaron Hill

  Judging, Haste, Youth

  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.

  Aaron Hill

  Belief, Moral, Birth

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• Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

  Aaron Hill

  Evil, Tree, Branches

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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.

  Aaron Hill

  Courage, Numbers, Lions

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• She who means no mischief does it all.

  Aaron Hill

  Mean, Doe, Mischief

  Aaron Hill, Urania Hill Johnson (1754). “Poems”, p.135

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• Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

  Aaron Hill

  Men, Ivy, Oaks

  Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.10

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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 Hill

  Heart, Giving, Tears

  Aaron Hill (1791). “Alzira: A Tragedy”, p.33

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• Let shining Charity adorn your zeal,
  The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.

  Aaron Hill

  Shining, Mind, Charity

  Aaron Hill, James Cawthorn, Michael Bruce (1822). “The Poems of Hill, Cawthorn, and Bruce”, p.43

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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 Hill

  Pain, Men, Ems

  'Verses Written on a Window in Scotland'

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• Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

  Aaron Hill

  Self, Shadow, Needs

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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 Hill

  Life, Passion, Fate

  Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.411

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• Trust me--with women worth the being won,
  The softest lover ever best succeeds.

  Aaron Hill

  Succeed, Lovers, Trust Me

  Aaron Hill (1791). “Alzira: A Tragedy”, p.19

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• Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.

  Aaron Hill

  Doubt, Mind, Arguing

  Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.21

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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.

  Aaron Hill

  Wise, Wisdom, Safe And Sound

  Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill: Esq; ...”, p.30

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• Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.

  Aaron Hill

  Adoption, Sorrow, Tears

  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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• 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 Hill

  Strength, Hero, Coward

  Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.15

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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.

  Aaron Hill

  Fear, Passion, Men

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