Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
JONATHAN SWIFTNo wise man ever wished to be younger.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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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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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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