It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFTReason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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