It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
JONATHAN SWIFTEvery dog must have his day.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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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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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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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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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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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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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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