Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
HENRY FIELDINGThwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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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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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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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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O 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.
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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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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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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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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 good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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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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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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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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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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