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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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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.
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A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.
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Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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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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The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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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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A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.
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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.
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
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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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