Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
HENRY FIELDINGGood-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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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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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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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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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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