"It is a trite but true definition that……" — Henry Fielding
"It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts."
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116 Quotes by Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding has 116 quotes on this site.
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When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most…
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart…
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason
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Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking…
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men…
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a…
— Hannah Arendt
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I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor…
— Chinua Achebe
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I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every…
— Michele Bachmann
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I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the…
— Michele Bachmann
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
— James A. Baldwin
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts…
— Saul Bellow
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
— Alan Bennett
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad…
— Wendell Berry
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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the…
— Donald Berwick
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That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there…
— Annie Besant
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Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
— Neal Boortz
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