A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFTSmall 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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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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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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