Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
HENRY FIELDINGThere is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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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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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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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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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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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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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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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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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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All nature wears one universal grin.
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