How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
JONATHAN SWIFTLive every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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