Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, And lose the medium in… - Aaron Hill

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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, And lose the medium in the wild extreme, Do not repent, but regulate your passion: Though love is reason, its excess is rage. Give me, at least, your promise to reflect, In cool, impartial solitude, and still. No last decision till we meet again.

Aaron Hill

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Aaron Hill (10 February 1685 – 8 February 1750) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer.

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