It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
JONATHAN SWIFTOne enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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