Zitate von Laurence Sterne
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Ich habe mein Elend nicht wie ein weiser Mann benutzt.
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Schriftsteller, Erzähler (England, 1713 - 1768).
Laurence Sterne · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Laurence Sterne wäre heute 310 Jahre, 4 Monate, 26 Tage oder 113.372 Tage alt.
Geboren am 24.11.1713 in Clonmel (Irland)
Gestorben am 18.03.1768 in London
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Weitere 66 Zitate von Laurence Sterne
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And who are you? said he. - Don't puzzle me, said I.
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As an Englishman does not travel to see Englishmen, I retired to my room.
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As we jog on, either laugh with me, or at me, or in short do anything, - only keep your temper.
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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
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Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows!
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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.
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Everything presses on-whilst thou art twisting that lock, - see! it grows grey; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make.
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God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.
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Hail, ye small sweet courtesies of life.
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Have not the wisest of men in all ages, not excepting Solomon himself, - have they not had their Hobby-Horses . . . and so long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceablyand quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him, - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
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He was in a few hours of giving his enemies the slip for ever.
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I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and the other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so, when he laughs - that it adds something to this Fragment of Life.
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I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'tis all barren.
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I should have no objection to this method, but that I think it must smell too strong of the lamp.
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
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If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.
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If the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
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If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy conversation; condescend to men of low estate, support the distressed, and patronize the neglected. Be great.
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Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?
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It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates everything to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.
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