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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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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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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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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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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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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man to enter into an agreement with his wife, that in all disputes of this kind the party who was most convinced they were right should always surrender the victory. By which means both would be more forward to give up the cause.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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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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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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He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.
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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.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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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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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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