02c. 1730 ADIt is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.Henry Fielding / quote ↗
03c. 1730 ADA beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.Henry Fielding / quote ↗
04c. 1730 ADCommend a fool for his wit or a knave for his honesty, and he will receive you into his bosom.Henry Fielding / quote ↗
06c. 1730 ADDomestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains.Henry Fielding / quote ↗
09c. 1730 ADGreat 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 / quote ↗
10c. 1730 ADGreatness is like a laced coat from Monmouth Street, which fortune lends us for a day to wear, to-morrow puts it on another's back.Henry Fielding / quote ↗
11c. 1730 ADHang constancy! you know too much of the world to be constant, sure.Henry Fielding / quote ↗
12c. 1730 ADHe 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 by the latter.Henry Fielding / quote ↗
13c. 1730 ADI know but of one solid objection to absolute monarchy; the difficulty of finding any man adequate to the office.Henry Fielding / quote ↗
14c. 1730 ADIt is a common failing of old men to attribute all wisdom to themselves.Henry Fielding / quote ↗
16c. 1730 ADLife may as properly be called an art as any other, and the great incidents in it are no more to be considered as mere accidents than the severest members of a fine statue or a noble poem.Henry Fielding / quote ↗
19c. 1730 ADMen of true wisdom and goodness are contented to take persons and things as they are, without complaining of their imperfections or attempting to amend them.Henry Fielding / quote ↗
21c. 1730 ADScarcely one man in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.Henry Fielding / quote ↗
22c. 1730 ADThe finest composition of human nature, as well as the finest china, may have a flaw in it, and this in either case is equally incurable.Henry Fielding / quote ↗
23c. 1730 ADThe greatest part of mankind labour under one delirium or another.Henry Fielding / quote ↗
24c. 1730 ADThe prudence of the best of hearts is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.Henry Fielding / quote ↗
