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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

Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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 various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
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
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
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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 is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery

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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