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Henry Fielding Inspirational Quotes (108)

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To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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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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Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.
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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
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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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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.
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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.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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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.
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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.
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Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.
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A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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