Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFTPhysicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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