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 SWIFTNo man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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