Books, the children of the brain.
JONATHAN SWIFTThat the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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