If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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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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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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