Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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 wise man ever wished to be younger.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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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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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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