O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor. Aaron Hill More Quotes by Aaron Hill More Quotes From Aaron Hill 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 deception vices joy Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake. Aaron Hill mind heart hands Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy. Aaron Hill oaks ivy men The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. Aaron Hill path men firsts 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 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 tears heart giving Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, Aaron Hill charity shining mind Tender-handed stroke a nettle, Aaron Hill ems pain men Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors. Aaron Hill shadow self needs Let never man be bold enough to say, Aaron Hill fate passion life Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme. Aaron Hill youth haste judging Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer. Aaron Hill shock law reason 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 coward strength hero Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow. Aaron Hill adoption tears sorrow 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 safe-and-sound wisdom wise Order, thou eye of action. Aaron Hill eye action order 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 he-man men ideas She who means no mischief does it all. Aaron Hill mischief doe mean Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil. Aaron Hill branches evil tree 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 passion fear men
