A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
HENRY FIELDINGA truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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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 rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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