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Jonathan Swift Inspirational Quotes (273)

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Big-endians and small-endians.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.
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Principally I hate and detest that animal called man although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
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There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.
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Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
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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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Whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or tooth, or finger ache Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face, Or put one feature out of place.
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I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
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It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.
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No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.
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For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme His fire is out, his wit decayed, His fancy sunk, his muse a jade. I'd have him throw away his pen, But there's no talking to some men.
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What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.
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It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
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Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
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Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.
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Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.
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In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.
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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
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