Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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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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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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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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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 man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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