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 SWIFTThe best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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