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What persons are by starts they are by nature.
Laurence Sterne
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Laurence Sterne
Age: 54 †
Born: 1713
Born: November 24
Died: 1768
Died: March 18
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Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue--that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy.
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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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The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.
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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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People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like.
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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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It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for difference of opinion in religious tenets, there never happened to be any inquisition, any auto da fe, any crusade, among the Pagans.
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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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Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?
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An English man does not travel to see English men.
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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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When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.
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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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Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.
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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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Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught.
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I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.
Laurence Sterne
It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
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It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.
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