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Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

Laurence Sterne

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Laurence Sterne
Age: 54 †
Born: 1713
Born: November 24
Died: 1768
Died: March 18
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Everything
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I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.
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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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Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
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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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It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.
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Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.
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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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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 take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
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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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What persons are by starts they are by nature.
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...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.
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People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like.
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Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
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There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.
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When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.
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