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Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes, it is to be feared, are seldom turned up to those who are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happier than ourselves, without some degree of malignity, we commonly look downward on the mean and miserable with sufficient benevolence and pity (Henry Fielding Quotes)
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor (Henry Fielding Quotes)
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later (Henry Fielding Quotes)
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are (Henry Fielding Quotes)
The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are (Henry Fielding Quotes)
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough, I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more (Henry Fielding Quotes)
Oons, sir! Do you say that I am drunk? I say, sir, that I am as sober as a judge (Henry Fielding Quotes)
It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts (Henry Fielding Quotes)
... the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author’s skill in well dressing it up (Henry Fielding Quotes)
... For nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them (Henry Fielding Quotes)
In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are (Henry Fielding Quotes)
His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage (Henry Fielding Quotes)
If we regard this world only, it is the interest of every man to be either perfectly good or completely bad. He had better destroy his conscience than gently wound it (Henry Fielding Quotes)
Yet, as great joy, especially after a sudden change and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue (Henry Fielding Quotes)
Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own (Henry Fielding Quotes)
In affairs of this world men are saved, not by faith, but by the want of it (Henry Fielding Quotes)
As they suspect a man in the city who is ostentatious of his riches, so should the woman he who makes the most noise of her virtue (Henry Fielding Quotes)
Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions (Henry Fielding Quotes)
Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides (Henry Fielding Quotes)
Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms (Henry Fielding Quotes)
So looks the lily after a shower, while drops of rain run gently down its silken leaves, and gather sweetness as they pass (Henry Fielding Quotes)
O this poor brain! Ten thousand shapes of fury are whirling there, and reason is no more (Henry Fielding Quotes)
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself (Henry Fielding Quotes)
It is a secret, well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies (Henry Fielding Quotes)
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others (Henry Fielding Quotes)
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 (Henry Fielding Quotes)
Commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosom (Henry Fielding Quotes)
A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply (Henry Fielding Quotes)
Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects (Henry Fielding Quotes)
In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country (Henry Fielding Quotes)