Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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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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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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