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7 Aaron Hill Quotes

Aaron Hill reflects on fate, courage and customs with a plain-spoken, thoughtful tone.

Aaron Hill quotes

  1. 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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  2. But me no buts.

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  3. 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.

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

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  6. Reason gains all people by compelling none.

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

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