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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Henry Fielding

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
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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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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Defense Protection Soldier Woman
Handsome is that handsome does.
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Action Beautiful Handsome One Liner
Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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Blind Justice Love Offend
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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Insult Liberty Sister Vice Virtue Woman
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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Blood Brave Food Heart
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Company Hell Invitation One Liner Wickedness
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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Game Human Leaving Life Security
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Errors Justice Leadership Man
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Character Man Woman
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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Compliment Critics Greatness Imagination Man Pay Reality World
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Injury Reason Trust Yourself
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Evil Goodness Man Sorry
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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Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See

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