Aaron Hill Quotes - Page 2

• Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

  Aaron Hill

  Law, Reason, Shock

  Voltaire, Aaron Hill (1797). “Merope: A Tragedy”, p.50

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• Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

  Aaron Hill

  Night, Veils, Shade

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• O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

  Aaron Hill

  Heart, Hands, Matrimony

  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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• 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.

  Aaron Hill

  Wine, Water, Red

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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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