Aaron Hill
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.Collection: Courage
Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
Reason gains all people by compelling none.
What position didn't I play last season?
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.Collection: Joy
Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Distance
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.Collection: Men
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.Collection: Men
Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.Collection: Evil
She who means no mischief does it all.Collection: Mean
Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Heart
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.Collection: Self
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.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Wise
Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.Collection: Adoption
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.Collection: Strength
Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.Collection: Law
Order, thou eye of action.Collection: Eye
Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.Collection: Night
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.Collection: Heart
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.Collection: Doubt
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.Collection: Wine
Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.Collection: Joy
Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.Collection: Art