Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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