It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
HENRY FIELDINGMoney will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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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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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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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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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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Enough is equal to a feast.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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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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