Henry Fielding - The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749)

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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Henry Fielding

There is, perhaps no surer mark of folly, than an attempt to correct the natural infirmities of those we love.

Henry Fielding

To say the truth, every physician almost hath his favorite disease.

Henry Fielding

As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection.

Henry Fielding

The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition enjoy their own acts of beneficence equally with those to whom they are done, so there are scarce any natures so entirely diabolical as to be capable of doing injuries without paying themselves some pangs for the ruin which they bring on their fellow-creatures.

Henry Fielding

When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.

Henry Fielding

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

Henry Fielding