All Jonathan Swift Quotes
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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