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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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When 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.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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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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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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