We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
HENRY FIELDINGThwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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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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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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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