Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
HENRY FIELDINGMoney will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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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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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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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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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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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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