Laurence Sterne's Quote - Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the heig

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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a mans stature as to his happiness. – Laurence Sterne

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So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the Kings highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him — pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it? – Laurence Sterne

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Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave it is not in his nature. – Laurence Sterne

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I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. – Laurence Sterne

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alone

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