Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
HENRY FIELDINGLOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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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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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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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 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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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