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Jonathan Swift Inspirational Quotes (273)

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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.
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I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.
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Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
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My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.
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A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea reasonable Dish and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.
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A lie is an excuse guarded
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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.
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If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.
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And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?
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Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.
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Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
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O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
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Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.
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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
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I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.
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There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.
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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
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