Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
JONATHAN SWIFTWe have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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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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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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