Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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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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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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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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