O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
HENRY FIELDINGIn a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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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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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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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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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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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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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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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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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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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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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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