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.

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  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.

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  Corazón, manos, mente

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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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  Distance, Writing, Mean

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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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  Men, Ideas, He Man

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• El hombre que se detiene en los caminos de la traición, Se detiene en una arena movediza, el primer paso lo engulle.

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  Men, Path, Firsts

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• Reason gains all people by compelling none.

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  People, Gains, Reason

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

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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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  Belief, Moral, Birth

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

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  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.

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  Courage, Numbers, Lions

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• La que no tiene mala intención lo hace todo.

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  Mean, Doe, Mischief

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

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• El hombre es el roble rodeado; la mujer, la hiedra.

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  Men, Ivy, Oaks

  Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.10

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

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  Shining, Mind, Charity

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

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• No escondas tus lágrimas; llora con valentía, y enorgullécete de dar la virtud que fluye de manera varonil; es la marca de la naturaleza para conocer un corazón honesto.

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  Heart, Giving, Tears

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

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• Tierno acaricia una ortiga
  y te pica por tu dolor;
  Agárrala como un hombre de temple,
  y queda suave como la seda. Es lo mismo con las naturalezas comunes:
  Si las usas con amabilidad, se rebelan;
  Pero se rudo como una nuez moscada,
  y los pícaros te obedecerán bien.

  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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• 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.

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

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  Judging, Haste, Youth

  Aaron Hill (1777). “Alzira: A Tragedy”, p.40

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• Order, thou eye of action.

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  Eye, Order, Action

  Aaron Hill, Urania Hill Johnson (1753). “The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, Esq.; in Four Volumes: Consisting of Letters on Various Subjects, and of Original Poems, Moral and Facetious. With an Essay on the Art of Acting”, p.120

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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.

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  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.

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  Wine, Water, Red

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