If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFTWise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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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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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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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Every dog must have his day.
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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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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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