Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFTWords are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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