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Worth begets in base minds, envy in great souls, emulation.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.
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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.
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As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern.
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Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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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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When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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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.
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