Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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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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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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