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.
HENRY FIELDINGWicked companions invite us to hell.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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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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The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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Domestic 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.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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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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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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