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.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Every dog must have his day.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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