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.
JONATHAN SWIFTPositiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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