Top 30 quotes by Aaron Hill

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She who means no mischief does it all.
Aaron Hill

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

Mean , Doe , Mischief

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

Vices , Joy , Deception

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

Reason gains all people by compelling none.
Aaron Hill

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

People , Reason , Gains

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
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Evil , Tree , Branches

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

Moral , Belief , Birth

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

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

Judging , Youth , Haste

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

Hands , Mind , Heart

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

'Verses Written on a Window in Scotland'

Men , Pain , Use

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

Shadow , Self , Needs

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.
Aaron Hill

Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.10

Men , Ivy , Oaks

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
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Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.64

Art , Looks , Deceiving

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

Numbers , Lions , Courage

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

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

Hands , Heart , Matrimony

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

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

Tears , Sorrow , Adoption