3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne 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.
3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.
3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne 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.
3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne 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.
3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne 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.
3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
