Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
HENRY FIELDINGHandsome is that handsome does.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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