Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor. Henry Fielding More Quotes by Henry Fielding More Quotes From Henry Fielding The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. Henry Fielding marriage heart love Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good. Henry Fielding achievement ill success The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go. Henry Fielding hunting cry wind What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow. Henry Fielding vices literature may Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. Henry Fielding envy literature would-be Where the law ends tyranny begins. Henry Fielding tyrants ends law Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour. Henry Fielding fool rogues honesty Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair. Henry Fielding despair men inspire Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous. Henry Fielding ridiculous faults vices 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. Henry Fielding giving-up party wise The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot. Henry Fielding fate ink names Wine and youth are fire upon fire. Henry Fielding youth wine fire It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts. Henry Fielding definitions example mind We must eat to live, and not live to eat. Henry Fielding eating-and-drinking italian-food eating The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation Henry Fielding ridiculous source 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. Henry Fielding tables may animal the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up. Henry Fielding entertainment excellence skills 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 slave should pay Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune. Henry Fielding insult missing looks 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. Henry Fielding voice age facts
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