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" I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life. "
Laurence Sterne
Time
Man
I Am
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" The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance. "
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" Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. "
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" Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current. "
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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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" So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil. "
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" Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! "
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" Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. "
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" In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them. "
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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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" Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. "
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" 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one. "
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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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" Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. "
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" An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. "
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" The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. "
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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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Live
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" God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. "
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" But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. "
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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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" There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture. "
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" In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. "
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" Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. "
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" People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. "
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" I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me. "
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" Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. "
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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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" People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. "
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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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" Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy. "
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" Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. "
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