Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Cursed luck! —said he, biting his lip as he shut the door, —for man to be master of one of the finest… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“It is by the finest tints, and most insensible gradations, that nature descends from the fairest face about St. James’s, to the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining;… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
“Button-holes! there is something lively in the very idea of 'em - and trust me, when I get amongst 'em - you gentry with… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
