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.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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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Every dog must have his day.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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