We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFTVision is seeing the invisible.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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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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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