| 82 Famous Quotes by Jonathan Swift
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“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
Religion Quotes |
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“We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.”
Vision Quotes |
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“Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem”
Flattery Quotes |
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“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
Hate Quotes |
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“Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together”
Politicians Quotes |
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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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“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.”
Shame Quotes |
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“For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.”
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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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“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
Vision Quotes |
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“Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Pastoral Dialogue (l. 7)
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“Time stoops to no man's lure.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Pastoral Dialogue (l. 7)
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“A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Pastoral Dialogue (l. 7)
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“A favour is half granted, when graciously refused.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Pastoral Dialogue (l. 7)
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“A great fortune enslaves its owner.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Pastoral Dialogue (l. 7)
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“A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly
gratifying.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Pastoral Dialogue (l. 7)
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“A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Pastoral Dialogue (l. 7)
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“A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to
him.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Pastoral Dialogue (l. 7)
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“A pleasant traveling companion helps us on our journey as much as
a carriage.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Pastoral Dialogue (l. 7)
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“A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Pastoral Dialogue (l. 7)
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“A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Pastoral Dialogue (l. 7)
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“In all distresses of our friends
We first consult our private ends;
While Nature, kindly bent to ease us,
Points out some circumstance to please us.”
Adversity Quotes Source: On the Death of Dr. Swift, a paraphrase of Rochefoucauld's "Maxim"
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“A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.”
Chastity Quotes Source: Introductions to History of the Reformation (preface), by Bishop Burnet
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“He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.”
Oysters Quotes Source: Polite Conversation (dialogue II)
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“And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears
of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground
where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and
do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of
politicians put together."”
Agriculture Quotes Source: Gulliver's Travels--Voyage to Brobdingnag (pt. II, ch. CII)
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Jonathan Swift Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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