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To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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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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A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.
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We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
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I am content that is a blessing greater than riches and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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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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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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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.
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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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Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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I describe not men, but manners not an individual, but a species.
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Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
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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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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
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Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
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Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you. This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.
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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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