Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything.” — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil… — 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
Madness is consistent; which is more than can be said for poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;--and by… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
So often has my judgment deceived me in my life, that I always suspect it, right or wrong,--at least I am seldom… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
[I have] been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue;--that her ornaments were such as might be… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of… — 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 Image
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
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 Image
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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