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.
HENRY FIELDINGThere 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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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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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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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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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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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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