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Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet; Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.
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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
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
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This Day, whate'er the Fates decree; Shall still be kept with Joy by me: This Day then, let us not be told, That you are sick, and I grown old
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Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.
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I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.
Jonathan Swift
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Let a man be never so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
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In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
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T is as cheap sitting as standing.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.
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Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
Jonathan Swift
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Observation is an old man's memory.
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It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.
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How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.
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When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.
Jonathan Swift
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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.
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.
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When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
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Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.
Jonathan Swift