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Yours is the guilt of all, who, judging wrong,Stops at the ear—with power to shake the heart.
— Aaron Hill (writer)
Yours is the guilt of all, who, judging wrong,Stops at the ear—with power to shake the heart.
O'er Nature's laws, God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul — and all was light.
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.
But me no buts.
Tender-handed stroke a nettle,And the rogues obey you well.
You talk no more of that gay nation now, Their virtue due to nature, not to fear.
Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.
First, then, a woman will or won’t, depend on ’t;Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice.
Reason gains all men, by compelling none. And he, who bears it not, has no friend there.
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, No last decision till we meet again.
