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Keep away from the fire!
— Laurence Sterne
A coward never forgives.
— Laurence Sterne
I like subordination, quoth my uncle Toby...
— Laurence Sterne
The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,through much tribulation. — Laurence Sterne
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
— Laurence Sterne
I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.
— Laurence Sterne
The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.
— Laurence Sterne
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
— Laurence Sterne
The best hearts are ever the bravest.
— Laurence Sterne
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
Only the brave know how to forgive
— Laurence Sterne
An English man does not travel to see English men.
— Laurence Sterne
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
— Laurence Sterne
The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.
— Laurence Sterne
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
— Laurence Sterne
A good simile,as concise as a king's declaration of love. — Laurence Sterne
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
— Laurence Sterne
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.
— Laurence Sterne
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.
— Laurence Sterne
Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.
— Laurence Sterne
Endless is the search of truth.
— Laurence Sterne
And what of this new book the whole world makes such a rout about?Oh ! 'tis out of all plumb, my lord,
quite an irregular thing! — Laurence Sterne
A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.
— Laurence Sterne
The brave only know how to forgive.
— Laurence Sterne
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
— Laurence Sterne
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
— Laurence Sterne
Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
— Laurence Sterne
Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?
— Laurence Sterne
Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story ...
— Laurence Sterne
Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?
— Laurence Sterne
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
— Laurence Sterne
Now or never was the time.
— Laurence Sterne
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
— Laurence Sterne
Only the brave know how to forgive ... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
— Laurence Sterne
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
— Laurence Sterne
Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?
— Laurence Sterne
We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them
— Laurence Sterne
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
— David Antin
Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.
— Laurence Sterne
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
— Laurence Sterne
Human nature is the same in all professions.
— Laurence Sterne
Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.
— Laurence Sterne
Injuries come only from the heart.
— Laurence Sterne
I begin with writing the first sentence - and trusting to Almighty
God for the second. — Laurence Sterne
To write a book is for all the world like humming a song - be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.
— Laurence Sterne
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
— Laurence Sterne
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
— Laurence Sterne
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
— Laurence Sterne
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
— Laurence Sterne
But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The
— Laurence Sterne
"They order," said I, "this matter better in France."
— Laurence Sterne
Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.
— Laurence Sterne
I am sick as a horse.
— Laurence Sterne
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
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.
— Laurence Sterne
The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.
— Laurence Sterne
The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.
— Laurence Sterne
We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
— Laurence Sterne
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
— Laurence Sterne
An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.
— Laurence Sterne
What persons are by starts they are by nature.
— Laurence Sterne
The world is ashamed of being virtuous.
— Laurence Sterne
Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
— Laurence Sterne
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,and has wit in it, and instruction too,
if we can but find it out. — Laurence Sterne
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
— Laurence Sterne
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
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.
— Laurence Sterne
The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.
— Laurence Sterne
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
— Laurence Sterne
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
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
— Laurence Sterne
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
— Laurence Sterne
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
— Laurence Sterne
Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.
— Laurence Sterne
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
— Laurence Sterne
Alas, poor YORICK!
— Laurence Sterne
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
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
— Laurence Sterne
Chance is the providence of adventurers.
— Laurence Sterne
The sad vicissitude of things.
— Laurence Sterne
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
— Laurence Sterne
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
— Laurence Sterne
For every ten jokes - thou hast got an hundred enemies ...
— Laurence Sterne
ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question? Pray, what was your father saying? - Nothing.
— Laurence Sterne
A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.
— Laurence Sterne
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
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
— Laurence Sterne
But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
— Laurence Sterne
