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Vision is seeing the invisible.

Jonathan Swift

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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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
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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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth

Vision is seeing the invisible.

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