It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe 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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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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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