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Only the brave know how to forgive...A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Every time a man smiles,—but much more so, when he laughs, that it adds something to this Fragment of life.
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760)
Friendship is the balm and cordial of life, and without it, ’tis a heavy load not worth sustaining.
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)
Beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.
Sermon XXIV: Pride (1766)
A man who laughs will never be dangerous.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760)
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760)
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause — and of obstinacy in a bad one.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760)
Crowded towns and busy societies may delight the unthinking and the gay, but solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)
A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760)
This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760)
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; —& they are the life, the soul of reading; — take them out of this book for instance, — you might as well take the book along with them.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760)
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)
Man is false to himself and betrays his own succours ten times where nature does it once.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)
The heart, in spite of the understanding, will always say too much.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760)