"We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions."

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Source : 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.426

Laurence Sterne

#World Quotes #May Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.”
“If I had had success when I was early twenties I'm sure I would have lost my mind, I would've just partied like crazy and probably blown everything I had.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.”
“Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.”
“Most women who have done something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone.”
“Relations between the sexes are so complicated that the only way you can tell if members of the set are going together is if they are married. Then, almost certainly, they are not.”
“Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.”
“If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.”

Source : Philip Yancey (2011). “Prayer”, p.18, Hachette UK

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