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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.

Henry Fielding

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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Art Comfortable Experience Human Mindset
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Greatness Logic Poor Reason Rich
All nature wears one universal grin.
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Nature One Liner Smile Universe
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Education Habit Nature Ourselves
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Best Defeat Head Tender
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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Bad End Forever Growth Happiness Man Pain Pursuit Relation Reward Subject World
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Lover Moments Money Oneself
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Book Company Corruption
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
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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Description Human Learning Nature World Writer
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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Best Cold Love Murder Tea
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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Desire Failure Grace Happiness Quality Rare Weird

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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