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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Wicked companions invite us to hell.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding 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.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding 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 FieldingHenry Fielding
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