Enough is equal to a feast.
HENRY FIELDINGA truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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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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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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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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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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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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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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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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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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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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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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