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The dignity of history. — Henry Fielding

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good. — Henry Fielding

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts. — Henry Fielding

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own. — Henry Fielding

What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil's work for free. — Henry Fielding

A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it. — Henry Fielding

Beauty may be the object of liking
great qualities of admiration
good ones of esteem
but love only is the object of love. — Henry Fielding

A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world. — Henry Fielding

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. — Henry Fielding

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. — Henry Fielding

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more. — Henry Fielding

Wicked companions invite us to hell. — Henry Fielding

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another. — Henry Fielding

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go. — Henry Fielding

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. — Henry Fielding

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil. — Henry Fielding

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good. — Henry Fielding

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years. — Henry Fielding

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. — Henry Fielding

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. — Henry Fielding

but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. Mrs — Henry Fielding

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. — Henry Fielding

One fool at least in every married couple. — Henry Fielding

a proof that good books, no more than good men, do always survive the bad. — Henry Fielding

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love. — Henry Fielding

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. — Henry Fielding

We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions. — Henry Fielding

Penny saved is a penny got. — Henry Fielding

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation. — Henry Fielding

What was said by the Latin poet of labor
that it conquers all things
is much more true when applied to impudence. — Henry Fielding

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself. — Henry Fielding

Genius,thou gift of heaven; without whose aid in vain we struggle against the stream of nature. — Henry Fielding

If thou hast seen all these without knowing what beauty is, thou hast no eyes; if without feeling its power, thou hast no heart. — Henry Fielding

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. — Henry Fielding

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. — Henry Fielding

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit. — Henry Fielding

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man. — Henry Fielding

To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required. — Henry Fielding

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. — Henry Fielding

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species. — Henry Fielding

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power. — Henry Fielding

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. — Henry Fielding

All Nature wears one universal grin. — Henry Fielding

Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked. — Henry Fielding

Dignity and love were never yet boon companions. — Henry Fielding

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others. — Henry Fielding

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last. — Henry Fielding

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. — Henry Fielding

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible. — Henry Fielding

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts. — Henry Fielding

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune. — Henry Fielding

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. — Henry Fielding

Where the law ends tyranny begins. — Henry Fielding

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things? — Henry Fielding

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven. — Henry Fielding

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired
with a love of justice against offenders. — Henry Fielding

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself. — Henry Fielding

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death. — Henry Fielding

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit. — Henry Fielding

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it. — Henry Fielding

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none. — Henry Fielding

It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all. — Henry Fielding

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor. — Henry Fielding

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell. — Henry Fielding

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. — Henry Fielding

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief. — Henry Fielding

Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates — Henry Fielding

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he has injured you — Henry Fielding

I never reasoned on what I should do, but what I had done; as if my Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards. — Henry Fielding

Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions. — Henry Fielding

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure. — Henry Fielding

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure. — Henry Fielding

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. — Henry Fielding

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open. — Henry Fielding

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease. — Henry Fielding

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. — Henry Fielding

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. — Henry Fielding

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not. — Henry Fielding

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. — Henry Fielding

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters. — Henry Fielding

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies. — Henry Fielding

Handsome is that handsome does. — Henry Fielding

Clergy are men as well as other folks. — Henry Fielding

In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country. — Henry Fielding

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation. — Henry Fielding

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. — Henry Fielding

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others. — Henry Fielding

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues. — Henry Fielding

As for my landlord, drinking was his trade; and the liquor had no more effect on him than it had on any other vessel in his house. The — Henry Fielding

The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot. — Henry Fielding

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. — Henry Fielding

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes. — Henry Fielding

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress. — Henry Fielding

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller ... who always proportions his stay in any place. — Henry Fielding

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all. — Henry Fielding

There is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself — Henry Fielding

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food. — Henry Fielding

Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection. — Henry Fielding

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. — Henry Fielding

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. — Henry Fielding