Jonathan Swift Quotes
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
Jonathan Swift
Quotes to Explore
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
Lactantius
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo Neruda
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
Maajid Nawaz
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
Eamonn Walker
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Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost.
F. Sionil Jose
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You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Maimonides
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On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.
Ma Jun
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Boys, do you hear that musketry and that artillery? It means that our friends are falling by the hundreds at the hands of the enemy, and here we are guarding a damned creek! Let's go and help them. What do you say?
Nathan Bedford Forrest
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Our most urgent problem just now is how to preserve in a positive and critical form the soul of truth in the two great traditions, classical and Christian, that are crumbling as mere dogma.
Irving Babbitt
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I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and illegible liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.
Ingmar Bergman
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'I’m a terrible salesman,' he finally said. 'I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.'
Orson Scott Card
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What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.
Jane Wiedlin
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
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I was born in New York, then I went to the UK, then I went to Brazil, then I went to France, then I studied in Italy. My life was always about being confronted with an environment where you had to adapt.
John Elkann
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Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.
Marcus Aurelius
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Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
Jonathan Swift
