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Small 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.

Jonathan Swift

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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Age Growth Miracle Religion
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Goodness Reason Yourself

Small 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.

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