It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
HENRY FIELDINGIt hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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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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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman’s lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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There 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.
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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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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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