It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
HENRY FIELDINGI describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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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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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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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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