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Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Nothing more unqualifies a man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Faith! He must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
The violets ope their purple heads; the roses blow, the cowslip springs (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, to tell what every schoolboy knows (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, each author adding to the former lies (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
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 (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
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 (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Where there are large powers with little ambition. Nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain (Jonathan Swift Quotes)