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.
HENRY FIELDINGThere is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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