Wicked companions invite us to hell.
HENRY FIELDINGThere is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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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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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Human 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.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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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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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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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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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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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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