Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
JONATHAN SWIFTI never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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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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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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