How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
JONATHAN SWIFTFor to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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