When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
HENRY FIELDINGDomestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
HENRY FIELDINGThere is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
HENRY FIELDINGAdversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
HENRY FIELDINGWisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
HENRY FIELDINGThe woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
HENRY FIELDINGLet no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
HENRY FIELDINGLOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
HENRY FIELDINGThe prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
HENRY FIELDINGHowever exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
HENRY FIELDINGWe endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
HENRY FIELDINGIt is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
HENRY FIELDINGWe are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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.
HENRY FIELDINGLife may as properly be called an art as any other.
HENRY FIELDINGA truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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