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.
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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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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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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Giving 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.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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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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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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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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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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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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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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