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Jonathan Swift Inspirational Quotes (273)

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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
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Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
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Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.
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Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.
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I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.
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A footman may swear but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
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Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.
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An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.
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Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
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In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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