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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

Laurence Sterne
Sheep, Wind, Literature
Laurence Sterne, Wilbur Lucius Cross, Elizabeth Draper, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1904). “Life of Lawrence Sterne by Percy Fitzgerald”

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Laurence Sterne
Together, Wickedness, Literature
Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, Henry Mackenzie, Horace Walpole (1823). ““The” Novels Of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, And Clara Reeve: 5”, p.200

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Laurence Sterne
Religion, Literature, Companion
Laurence Sterne (1853). “Works ...”, p.595

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Laurence Sterne
Change, Ideas, Literature

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Laurence Sterne
Joy, Devil, Literature
Laurence Sterne (1996). “Tristram Shandy”, p.345, Wordsworth Editions

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Laurence Sterne
Men, Mind, Literature
Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.275

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Laurence Sterne
Passion, Literature, Return

Men tire themselves in the pursuit of sleep.

Laurence Sterne
Sleep, Men, Literature

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

Laurence Sterne
Literature, Pens, Asks
Laurence Sterne (1817). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.386

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