Jonathan Swift Quotes
Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
Jonathan Swift
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
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When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.
Taylor Swift
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence
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This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.
Omar Sharif
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
Wallace Stevens
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
Sai Baba
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Karen Salmansohn
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To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
E. Stanley Jones
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo
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They will never shoulder a musket again in anger, and if Grant is wise, he will leave them their guns to shoot crows with and their horses to plow with. It would do no harm.
Abraham Lincoln
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A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
Pope John Paul II
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I hate to cook, but I love to eat. I would want to be able to conjure yummy and healthy meals by wiggling my nose!
Jessica Parker Kennedy
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Time's glory is to command contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
William Shakespeare
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Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
Jonathan Swift
