Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFTBooks, the children of the brain.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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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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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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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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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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