A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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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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