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 SWIFTWhen a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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