"Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed……" — Laurence Sterne
"Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he only who knows how to accommodate himself to their returns, and can wisely extract the good from the evil, knows how to live."
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107 Quotes by Laurence Sterne
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An English man does not travel to see English men.
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Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.
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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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First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which…
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the…
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