Best Quotes by Laurence Sterne (Top 10)
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What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.
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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
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I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
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Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
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Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
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So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
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Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.
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Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
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More Laurence Sterne Quotes
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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
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People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
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Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
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Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
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First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.
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We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
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People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
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Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.
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There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
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Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
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