01c. 1740 ADGo, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.Laurence Sterne / quote ↗
03c. 1740 AD"Our armies swore terribly in Flanders," cried my Uncle Toby, "but nothing to this."Laurence Sterne / quote ↗
04c. 1740 ADOf 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!Laurence Sterne / quote ↗
05c. 1740 ADThe accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.Laurence Sterne / quote ↗
08c. 1740 ADI pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, "'T is all barren!"Laurence Sterne / quote ↗
10c. 1740 AD"Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught."Laurence Sterne / quote ↗
12c. 1740 ADTrust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.Laurence Sterne / quote ↗
13c. 1740 ADCourtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.Laurence Sterne / quote ↗
14c. 1740 ADThe way to fame is like the way to heaven—through much tribulation.Laurence Sterne / quote ↗
16c. 1740 ADI pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, "It is all barren."Laurence Sterne / quote ↗
17c. 1740 ADO blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue. He that has thee has little more to wish for, and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with thee.Laurence Sterne / quote ↗
18c. 1740 ADPeople who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding up a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.Laurence Sterne / quote ↗
19c. 1740 ADI never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three,—the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.Laurence Sterne / quote ↗
20c. 1740 ADIf a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.Laurence Sterne / quote ↗
22c. 1740 ADThere are many ways of inducing sleep,—the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.Laurence Sterne / quote ↗
24c. 1740 ADConversation is a traffic; and if you enter into it without some stock of knowledge to balance the account perpetually, the trade drops at once.Laurence Sterne / quote ↗
