Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
JONATHAN SWIFTEvery day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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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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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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