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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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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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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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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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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.
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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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