However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
HENRY FIELDINGPublic schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
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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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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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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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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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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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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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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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