Where the law ends tyranny begins.
HENRY FIELDINGO 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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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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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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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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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Handsome is that handsome does.
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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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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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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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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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