Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
HENRY FIELDINGWicked companions invite us to hell.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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Wicked companions invite us to hell.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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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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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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