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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

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
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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Break End Person Time
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party

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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