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.
HENRY FIELDINGRiches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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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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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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