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 FIELDINGLet no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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All nature wears one universal grin.
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A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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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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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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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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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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