I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFTOne enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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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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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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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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 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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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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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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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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