“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
Jonathan Swift
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“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
Jonathan Swift
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“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
Jonathan Swift
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“The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.”
Jonathan Swift
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Atheism
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“Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.”
Jonathan Swift
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“The most positive men are the most credulous.”
Jonathan Swift
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“Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.”
Jonathan Swift
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Complaining
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“Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.”
Jonathan Swift
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Writing
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“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
Jonathan Swift
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Vision
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“Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.”
Jonathan Swift
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Vanity
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“Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.”
Jonathan Swift
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“Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”
Jonathan Swift
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.”
Jonathan Swift
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.”
Jonathan Swift
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Belief
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“The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.”
Jonathan Swift
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Style
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“I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”
Jonathan Swift
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.”
Jonathan Swift
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“Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.”
Jonathan Swift
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reason
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“Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.”
Jonathan Swift
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Promises
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“Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.”
Jonathan Swift
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Power
