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.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Enough is equal to a feast.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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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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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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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 beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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