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.
JONATHAN SWIFTVision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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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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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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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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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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