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If the men of wit and genius w...

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

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Few are qualified to shine in ...

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

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Small causes are sufficient to...

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Apollo was held the god of phy...

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

If the world had but a dozen A...

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels.

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Live every day as your last, b...

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

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God hath intended our passions...

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

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Rebukes are easy from our bett...

Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will affront,
What man alive can stand the brunt?

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Your notions of friendship are...

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

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Dignity, high station, or grea...

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

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I have known some men possesse...

I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

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In oratory the greatest art is...

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

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Old men and comets have been r...

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

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A stander-by may sometimes, pe...

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

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All panegyrics are mingled wit...

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

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The various opinions of philos...

The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.

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It is in disputes as in armies...

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

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A secret is seldom safe in mor...

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

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She has more goodness in her l...

She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.

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I won't quarrel with my bread ...

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

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