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Jonathan Swift Inspirational Quotes (273)

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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought. . . . . A blockhead with melodious voice, In boarding-schools may have his choice.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
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This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.
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Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
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Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.
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With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.
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No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.
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Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.
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I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.
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The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.
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I never knew any man cured of inattention.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Tis nothing when you are used to it.
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Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
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Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
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Bread is the staff of life.
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