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I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Laurence Sterne
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Laurence Sterne
Age: 54 †
Born: 1713
Born: November 24
Died: 1768
Died: March 18
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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.
Laurence Sterne
Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.
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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.
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I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.
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Human nature is the same in all professions.
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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.
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
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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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An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.
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In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself in the world it seeks or accepts of a few treacherous supports--the feigned compassion of one, the flattery of a second, the civilities of a third, the friendship of a fourth--they all deceive, and bring the mind back to retirement, reflection, and books.
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There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.
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A coward never forgives.
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We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
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Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.
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Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
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A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.
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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.
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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.
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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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Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
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