Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
HENRY FIELDINGDomestic 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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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 beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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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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