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.
JONATHAN SWIFTMay you live all the days of your life.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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 a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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