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“O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.”
Source: 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
“The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.”
“Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.”
Source: Tragedy of the Orphan; Or, the Unhappy Marriage with a Critique by Richard Cumberland
“Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.”
Source: Works
“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
“Trust me--with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds.”
Source: Alzira: A Tragedy
“Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.”
Source: Works
“Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq
“Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.”
“She who means no mischief does it all.”
Source: Poems
Source: 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
“Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.”
Source: The Poems of Hill, Cawthorn, and Bruce
“Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.”
Source: Merope: A Tragedy
Source: Alzira: A Tragedy
“Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.”
Source: Tragedy of Alzira with the Life of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland
Source: The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill: Esq; ...
“Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq
Source: The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq
“Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.”
Source: Alzira: A Tragedy