Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
HENRY FIELDINGSome folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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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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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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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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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.
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