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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Jonathan Swift

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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 SWIFT

Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Blind Eyes See
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man One Liner Wisdom Young
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fly Kind Man Thinking
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Game Love Mad Play War
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Art Easy Goodness People Room
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fate Person Reason Yourself
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
JONATHAN SWIFT

Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick

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