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.
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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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