48 ordspråk av Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne föddes den November 24th 1713 och dog den 18 March 1768 - Irish-Englis writer
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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 |
| I should have no objection to this method, but that I think it must smell too strong of the lamp. |
| I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it. |
| 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 |
| I write the first sentence and trust in God for the next |
| In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. |
| Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. |
| Men tire themselves in the pursuit of sleep |
| Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. |
| 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! |
| One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct. |
| Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. |
| Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. |
| Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. |
| Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. |
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