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.
HENRY FIELDINGA beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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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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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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