A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
HENRY FIELDINGLife may as properly be called an art as any other.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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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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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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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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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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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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