One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFTAlthough men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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