When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
HENRY FIELDINGThere 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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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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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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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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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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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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