All Laurence Sterne Quotes
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Laurence Sterne
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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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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
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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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When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
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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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One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
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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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It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.
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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.
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Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
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Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
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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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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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