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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Henry Fielding

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
HENRY FIELDING

Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Blood Brave Food Heart
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
HENRY FIELDING

Appearance Fashion Inspirational Oneself Science
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
HENRY FIELDING

Man Sex Woman Worth
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Beginning Deserve Growth Himself
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
HENRY FIELDING

Eat Live One Liner
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Choice Heart Himself Leaving Man Rich
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
HENRY FIELDING

Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDING

Friendship Happiness Leadership
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Action Betrayal Break Lips Love Respect Woman
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
HENRY FIELDING

Heaven Justice Leaving Mercy
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.
HENRY FIELDING

Kind Man Nourish Society Trade
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
HENRY FIELDING

Adversity Himself Honesty Principle
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil’s work for free.
HENRY FIELDING

Devil Freedom Himself Work
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
HENRY FIELDING

Book Company Corruption
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
HENRY FIELDING

Cost Heaven Himself Man Pain Price

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

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