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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

Jonathan Swift

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Day Life Live Yourself

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

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