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Jonathan Swift Quote: “It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Praise is the daughter of present power.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who’s master, who’s man.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Tis nothing when you are used to it.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “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?”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “A traveler’s chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph’st o’er the wise.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it’s like spending this year part of next year’s revenue.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventures, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons, And Buccaneers and buried Gold, And all the old romance, retold Exactly in the ancient way, Can please, as me they pleased of old, The wiser youngsters of to-day:.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “The empress, and young princes of the blood of both sexes, attended by many ladies, sat at some distance in their chairs; but.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Pray steal me not, I’m Mrs. Dingley’s, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Three kings protested to me, that in their whole reigns they never did once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake, or treachery of some minister in whom they confided; neither would they do it if they were to live again: and they showed, with great strength of reason, that the royal throne could not be supported without corruption, because that positive, confident, restive temper, which virtue infused into a man, was a perpetual clog to public business.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “I should perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform you, and not to amuse you.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “I row after health like a waterman...”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “But a Broom-stick, perhaps you will say, is an Emblem of a Tree standing on its Head; and pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature? His Animal Faculties perpetually mounted on his Rational; his Head where his Heels should be, groveling on the Earth.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “A humour of reading books, except those of devotion or housewifery, is apt to turn a woman’s brain... All affectation of knowledge beyond what is merely domestic, renders them vain, conceited and pretending.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “A college joke to cure the dumps.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “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.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “If a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.”
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