It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
HENRY FIELDINGLove may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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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 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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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 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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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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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 is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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