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 FIELDINGThere 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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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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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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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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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.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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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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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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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 life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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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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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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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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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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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.
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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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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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