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 doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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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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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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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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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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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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