It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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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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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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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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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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