How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
JONATHAN SWIFTPositiveness 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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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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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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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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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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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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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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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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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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