No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
HENRY FIELDINGWine and youth are fire upon fire.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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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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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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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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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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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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