Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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