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.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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 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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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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.
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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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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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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