Success is a fruit of slow growth.
HENRY FIELDING
HENRY FIELDING
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding 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.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding 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.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding 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.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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