Laurence Sterne Quotes

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• Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

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  Respect, Self Esteem, Ethics

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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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  Life, Eye, Simple

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• Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

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  Men, Tire, Pursuit

  Laurence Sterne (1803). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...”, p.101

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• In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

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  Strength, Wisdom, Loneliness

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• There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

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  Real, Acquiescence, Definitions

  Laurence Sterne (1814). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.330

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• Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

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  Forgiveness, Brave, Forgiving

  "Sermons" by Laurence Sterne, vol. I, No. 12, 1760.

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• God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

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  Sheep, Wind, Literature

  Laurence Sterne, Wilbur Lucius Cross, Elizabeth Draper, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1904). “Life of Lawrence Sterne by Percy Fitzgerald”

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• Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

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  Book, Pouring, Mixtures

  Laurence Sterne (1767). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.3

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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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  World, May, Trouble

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.426

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• Endless is the search of truth.

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  Truth, Endless

  Laurence Sterne (1788). “The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.155

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• The best hearts are ever the bravest.

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  Courage, Heart

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 166), 1895.

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• Now or never was the time.

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  Now Or Never

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention.

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  Kindness, Voice, Looks

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• Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

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  Wisdom, Science, Intelligence

  Tristam Shandy

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• Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

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  Together, Wickedness, Literature

  Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, Henry Mackenzie, Horace Walpole (1823). ““The” Novels Of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, And Clara Reeve: 5”, p.200

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• The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

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  Motivational, Education, Business

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.65

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• Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.

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  Writing, Wine, Flavor

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.341

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• Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

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  Success, Pain, Light

  Laurence Sterne (1860). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, Etc”, p.573

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• For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

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  Enemy, Hundred, Jokes

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• An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

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  Hands, Actors, Able

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• Injuries come only from the heart.

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  Heart, Injury, Goodness

  Laurence Sterne (1803). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...”, p.198

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• The sad vicissitude of things.

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  Vicissitudes

  "Sermons, Volume I". Book by Laurence Sterne (Sermon No. 16), 1760.

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• Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

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  Religion, Literature, Companion

  Laurence Sterne (1853). “Works ...”, p.595

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• The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.

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  Mother, Loneliness

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• Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

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  Men, Conscience

  Laurence Sterne (1859). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy: Gentleman & A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy”, p.472

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