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Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
Essayist
Human Rights Activist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Pamphleteer
Philosopher
Poet
Priest
Prosaist
Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.
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Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
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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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When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.
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Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
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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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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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In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
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111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.
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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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And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?
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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
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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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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
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I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
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It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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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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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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