However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
HENRY FIELDINGHowever exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
HENRY FIELDINGLOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
HENRY FIELDINGIt is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
HENRY FIELDINGAdversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
HENRY FIELDINGIn 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.
HENRY FIELDINGA rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
HENRY FIELDINGDancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
HENRY FIELDINGLet no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
HENRY FIELDINGGiving 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.
HENRY FIELDINGThirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
HENRY FIELDINGThwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
HENRY FIELDINGLove and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
HENRY FIELDINGLife may as properly be called an art as any other.
HENRY FIELDINGHuman life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
HENRY FIELDINGGood-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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