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.
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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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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.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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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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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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