List of Henry Fielding Quotes

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Henry Fielding
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Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?
Men Eternity Notion
It is 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.
Friendship Men Creating
Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.
Merit Modesty Candle
Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.
Two Mind Operations
The dignity of history.
Historical Dignity
It is with jealousy as with the gout. when such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected.
Jealousy Blood Gout
Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be asserted of it. the story of the miser who, from long accustoming to cheat others, came at last to cheat himself, and with great delight and triumph picked his own pocket of a guinea to convey to his hoard, is not impossible or improbable.
Strong Long Mind
The hounds all join in glorious cry, / the huntsman winds his horn: / and a-hunting we will go.
Hunting Wind Cry
It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.
Character Errors Perfect
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.
Vices Doe Charity
Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.
Men Inspire Despair
Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.
Hero Mean Ideas
  • Born: April 22, 1707
  • Died: October 8, 1754
  • Occupation: Novelist
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