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It is the talent of human natu...

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

He that calls a man ungrateful...

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

The example alone of a vicious...

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

The system of morality to be g...

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

The motives of the best action...

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

A little grain of the romance ...

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Patience alleviates, as impati...

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Orators inflame the people, wh...

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Perverseness is your whole def...

Perverseness is your whole defence.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

A wise man will find us to be ...

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

It is pleasant to observe how ...

It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. 'Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;' whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Though Diogenes lived in a tub...

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

An idle reason lessens the wei...

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

How often do we contradict the...

How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.

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What religion is he of?
W...

What religion is he of?
Why, he is an Anythingarian.

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Neither is it safe to count up...

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

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Rhetoric in serious discourses...

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

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My father had a small Estate i...

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

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A true critic, in the perusal ...

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Had Windham possessed discreti...

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

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