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Laurence Sterne Quote: “Surely, ’tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him soso here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the characterof generosity and virtue.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath’d at the same time.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read book so bad but he drew some profit from it.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Look into the world – how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man’s affliction, taking shelterbehind an appearance of piety, and putting on the garb of religion, which none but the merciful and compassionate have a title to wear.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man’s stature as to his happiness.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for difference of opinion in religious tenets, there never happened to be any inquisition, any auto da fe, any crusade, among the Pagans.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven’s chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Je weniger wirkliches Wissen, desto mehr Hitze und Aufregung.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy. – Accordingly I set off thus:.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman’s pulse.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart. The loss of goods, of health, of coronets and mitres, is only evil as they occasion sorrow; take that out, the rest is fancy, and dwelleth only in the head of man.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue; – that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman’s life both glorious and happy.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story...”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “When the precipitancy of a man’s wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in – woe be to truth!”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “I am this month one whole year older than I was this time twelve-month; and having got, as you perceive, almost into the middle of my fourth volume – and no farther than to my first day’s life – ‘tis demonstrative that I have three hundred and sixty-four days more life to write just now, than when I first set out; so that instead of advancing, as a common writer, in my work with what I have been doing at it – on the contrary, I am just thrown so many volumes back –.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “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.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “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?”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “We all cry out that the world is corrupt, – and I fear too justly, – but we never reflect, what we have to thank for it, and that itis our open countenance of vice, which gives the lye to our private censures of it, which is its chief protection and encouragement.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Did not Dr. Kunastrokius, that great man, at his leisure hours, take the greatest delight imaginable in combing of asses tails, and plucking the dead hairs out with his teeth, though he had tweezers always in his pocket?”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one...”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Great wits jump.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Is it not an amazing thing, that men shall attempt to investigate the mystery of the redemption, when, at the same time that it is propounded to us as an article of faith solely, we are told that “the very angels have desired to pry into it in vain”?”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.”
Laurence Sterne Quote: “Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.”
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