Jonathan Swift Quotes
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.
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I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.
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My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.
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The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
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To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
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Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.
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I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.
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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.
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I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.
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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
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So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.
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Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes.
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I'd rather be in this wheelchair knowing God than on my feet without him.
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All anything takes, really, is confidence.
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Maybe I'll take a little better care of myself, but I wouldn't count on it.
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My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
