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 FIELDINGWhen 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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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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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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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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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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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