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 SWIFTIf Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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