I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFTThat the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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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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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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