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.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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