It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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It 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.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Every dog must have his day.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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