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• Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they are--else there would beno dealing with them.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Mind, Courtship

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

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• Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

  Laurence Sterne

  Passion, Literature, Return

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• Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

  Laurence Sterne

  Learning, Science, Grammar

  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.339

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• A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

  Laurence Sterne

  Dwarves, Size, Standards

  Laurence Sterne (1851). “Works of Laurence STerne; Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent., A Sentimental Journay Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, &c”, p.193

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• The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,--through much tribulation.

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  Heaven, Way, Fame

  Laurence Sterne, Thomas Stothard (1867). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. And A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy ... With Life of the Author by Sir Walter Scott, Portrait, and Outline Wood Engravings After Thomas Stothard”, p.9

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• An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.

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  Inward, Influence, Sincerity

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent., Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, &c. With a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.730

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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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  Good Night, Lying, Heart

  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.341

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• The great end of all religionis to purify our hearts--and conquer our passions--and in a word, to make us wiser and better men--better neighbours--better citizens--and better servants of GOD.

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  Passion, Heart, Character

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• There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

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  Men, Talking, Ancient

  Laurence Sterne (1790). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.130

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• So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients to satiate as well as disguise itself. But if these smoother weapons cut so sore, what shall we say of open and unblushing scandal, subjected to no caution, tied down to no restraints?

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  Cutting, Weapons, Scandal

  Laurence Sterne (1810). “The Beauties of Sterne: Containing All His Pathetic Tales, His Humorous Descriptions, His Most Distinguished Observations on Life, and a Copious Selection from His Sermons ...”, p.241

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• The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

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  Tickets, Chance, Virtue

  Laurence Sterne (1795). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A.M. In Eight Volumes ..”, p.113

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• The soul and body are joint-sharers in every thing they get: A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time; andif he dresses like a gentleman, every one of them stands presented to his imagination, genteelized along with him.

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  Men, Ideas, Soul And Body

  Laurence Sterne, Ian Campbell Ross (2009). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.506, Oxford University Press

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• When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

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  Names, Broken, Joy

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent., Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, &c. With a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.599

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• True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro' its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round.

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  Running, Health, Heart

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 4, ch. 32

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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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  Kindness, Passion, Heart

  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.339

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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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  Hurt, Devil, Gone

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 2, ch. 12

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• "They order," said I, "this matter better in France."

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  Order, Matter, France

  A Sentimental Journey (1768)

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• A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.

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  Country, Men, Should

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 7, ch. 2

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• When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.

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  Strong, Horse, Farewell

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “3 Books by Laurence Sterne”, p.73, eBookIt.com

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• How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.

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  Country, War, Air

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• I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

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  Book, Soul, World

  Laurence Sterne (1768). “A sentimental journey through France and Italy, by mr. Yorick”, p.173

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• I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

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  Doors, Mountain, Cottages

  Laurence Sterne (1795). “The Works of Laurence Sterne”, p.175

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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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  Wise, Book, Reading

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.43

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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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  Hate, Numbers, Obscurity

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.151

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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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  Truth, Father, Mean

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “3 Books by Laurence Sterne”, p.523, eBookIt.com

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