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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Laurence Sterne
Success, Pain, Light
Laurence Sterne (1860). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, Etc”, p.573

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

I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.

Laurence Sterne
Pain, Men, Sorrow
Laurence Sterne, Thomas Stothard (1867). “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”, p.140

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

Laurence Sterne
Pain, History, Soldier
Laurence Sterne (2013). “3 Books by Laurence Sterne”, p.62, eBookIt.com

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can wisely extract the good from the evil, knows only how to live: this is true contentment, at least all that is to be had of it in this world; and for this every man must be indebted not to his fortune, but to himself.

Laurence Sterne
Gratitude, Pain, Light
"The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy: Gentleman & A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy".

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