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Free without scandal; wise without restraint;
Their virtue due to nature, not to fear.

— Aaron Hill Zara (1735)

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Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.

Zara (1735)

O'er Nature's laws, God cast the veil of night,
Out blaz'd a Newton's soul — and all was light.

Preserved in Hill's Works (1753)

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.

She most attracts who longest can refuse.

The man who pauses on the paths of treason,
Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

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