Vision is seeing the invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFTDon’t set your wit against a child.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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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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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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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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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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For 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.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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