Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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