Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
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.
- Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
- 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.
- 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.
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