People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
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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 man's stature as to his happiness.Laurence Sterne
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.
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A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
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I write the first sentence and trust in God for the next
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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
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But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
Laurence Sterne
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