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The best hearts are ever the bravest.

The best hearts are ever the bravest.

Laurence Sterne
Courage, Heart
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 166), 1895.

Injuries come only from the heart.

Laurence Sterne
Heart, Injury, Goodness
Laurence Sterne (1803). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...”, p.198

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in every thing, and who, having eyes to see, what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on.

Laurence Sterne
Adventure, Eye, Heart
Laurence Sterne (1832). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.260

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

Laurence Sterne
Pain, Heart, Judging
Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.22, Hackett Publishing

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.

Laurence Sterne
Heart, Men, Hypocrisy
Laurence Sterne (1853). “Works ...”, p.504

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.

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Beauty, Humility, Heart
Laurence Sterne (1823). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.241

A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.

Laurence Sterne
Good Night, Lying, Heart
Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.341

The great end of all religionis to purify our hearts--and conquer our passions--and in a word, to make us wiser and better men--better neighbours--better citizens--and better servants of GOD.

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Passion, Heart, Character

True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro' its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round.

Laurence Sterne
Running, Health, Heart
'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 4, ch. 32

Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions--tell me, what trespass is it that man should have them?... If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece--must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?

Laurence Sterne
Kindness, Passion, Heart
Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.339

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Laurence Sterne
Life, Heart, Adventure
Laurence Sterne (1832). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.260

There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a word--a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.

Laurence Sterne
Heart, Wind, Ill Will
Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, p.532, Delphi Classics

Look into the world--how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind an appearance of piety, and putting on the garb of religion, which none but the merciful and compassionate have a title to wear.

Laurence Sterne
Heart, Men, Hypocrisy
Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.234, Hackett Publishing

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Laurence Sterne
Wisdom, Passion, Heart

I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his Author's hands; be pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.

Laurence Sterne
Sympathy, Giving Up, Heart
Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.82

If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart. The loss of goods, of health, of coronets and mitres, is only evil as they occasion sorrow; take that out, the rest is fancy, and dwelleth only in the head of man.

Laurence Sterne
Heart, Loss, Men
Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, p.405, Delphi Classics

I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?

Laurence Sterne
Passion, Heart, Iron
Laurence Sterne, James P. Browne (1873). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author”, p.217, London : Bickers, H. Sotheran

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