Laurence Sterne Quotes
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The way to fame is like the way to heaven, through much tribulation.
[Fame]
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There are some tempers wrought up by habitual selfishness to an utter insensibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature or had no lot or connection at all with the species.
[Selfishness]
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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
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There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will; a word - a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force would scarce have reached the object aimed at.
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This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
[World]
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time continues so throughout the whole delirium, though it should last for life. - Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy, but begin to shift and waver as we return to reason.
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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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To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
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To judge rightly of our own worth we should retire from the world so as to see both its pleasures and pains in their proper light and dimensions - thus taking the heart from off this world and its allurements, which so dishonor the understanding as to turn the wisest of men into fools and children.
[Retirement]
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Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
[Conscience]
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We may imitate the Deity in all his moral 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.
[Mercy]
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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!
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What persons are by starts, they are by nature - you see them at such times off their guard. - Habit may restrain vice, and virtue may be obscured by passion, but intervals best discover man.
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Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all upon.
[Repentance]
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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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When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
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Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
[Writers And Writing]
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