Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
JONATHAN SWIFTWar: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Every dog must have his day.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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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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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The 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.
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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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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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