A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
JONATHAN SWIFTSmall causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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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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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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That 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.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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