A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
HENRY FIELDINGPenny saved is a penny got.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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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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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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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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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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