Jonathan Swift Quotes
When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.
Quotes to Explore
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We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.
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There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.
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The final mystery is oneself.
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Delay is the enemy of progress.
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Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.
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The bird that has taught its nestling to fly does not try to keep it in the nest, when it is once able to take care of itself.
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Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing.
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I said I'd be honest, I never said I'd be consistant.
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The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't like, 'Hey, little lady, come strap on this here big guitar.' We took it in steps as much as possible.
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It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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Our job is to make the fans happy. When we win, 45,000 people go home happy. When we lose, it not only affects them, it affects their cats.
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Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
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Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.
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I was fifteen. I was bored. I was miserable.
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When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.
