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Quote by Laurence Sterne

“Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.”

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Laurence Sterne, born on November 24, 1713, and died on March 18, 1768, was a prominent English novelist of the 18th century. He is best known for his novel 'Tristram Shandy', which is considered a pioneer of modern fiction and is renowned for its unique narrative style and profound insights into human nature. more

“Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.”

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author

“Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.”

World Way Made Heaven Resources Claims Charity Sufficient

Book:A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts

Source: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts

“Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.”

Men Hands Death Fame Tasks Envy Chains Gates Another Man Captives

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

“Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.”

May Death Bed Weak Stress Lays Repentance Slender Death Bed

Book:The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy: Gentleman & A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Source: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy: Gentleman & A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

“The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,--through much tribulation.”

Way Heaven Fame Tribulation

Book:The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. And A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy ... With Life of the Author by Sir Walter Scott, Portrait, and Outline Wood Engravings After Thomas Stothard

Source: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. And A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy ... With Life of the Author by Sir Walter Scott, Portrait, and Outline Wood Engravings After Thomas Stothard

“O 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.”

Want Littles Art Soul Wish Virtue Health Gold Blessed Treasure Thee Instruction Wretched Relish

Book:The Works ...: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Works ...: With a Life of the Author

“A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.”

Men Doe Reading Productions Skip Fleas

Author:Samuel Rogers

“Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible.”

Men May Children Lasts Childhood Insensible

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour A thousand melodies unheard before.”