A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
HENRY FIELDINGO 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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.
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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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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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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.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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