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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.

Jonathan Swift

Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
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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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
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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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
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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Appearance Genius Himself True
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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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
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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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion

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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