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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.
Laurence Sterne
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Laurence Sterne
Age: 54 †
Born: 1713
Born: November 24
Died: 1768
Died: March 18
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...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.
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I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?
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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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We are born to trouble and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.
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Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions--tell me, what trespass is it that man should have them?... If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece--must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?
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Men tire themselves in the pursuit of sleep.
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The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.
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Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught.
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If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,--then certes the soul does not inhabit there.
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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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There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.
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Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.
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I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.
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