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Short Story Inspirational Quotes (132)

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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
Henry Fielding
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Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.
Joanna Russ
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Henry Fielding
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the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.
Henry Fielding
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It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.
Henry Fielding
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There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.
Henry Fielding
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And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal).
Joanna Russ
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
Henry Fielding
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He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.
Henry Fielding
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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.
Henry Fielding
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
Henry Fielding
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Henry Fielding
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You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them.
Joanna Russ
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Henry Fielding
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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.
Henry Fielding
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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!
Henry Fielding
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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.
Henry Fielding
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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.
Henry Fielding
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
Henry Fielding
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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.
Henry Fielding
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Enough is equal to a feast.
Henry Fielding
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Penny saved is a penny got.
Henry Fielding
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I cried for madder music and for stronger wine.
Ernest Dowson
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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.
Henry Fielding
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