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The dignity of history.
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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.
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Beauty may be the object of likinggreat 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.
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His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
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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.
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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.
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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
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
— Henry Fielding
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
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but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. Mrs
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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One fool at least in every married couple.
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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
— Henry Fielding
What was said by the Latin poet of laborthat 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.
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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
To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.
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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
Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.
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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
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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.
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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.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspiredwith 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.
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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
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.
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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.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.
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Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
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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.
— Henry Fielding
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
— 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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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