The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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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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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.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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