Vision is seeing the invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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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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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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