All Jonathan Swift Quotes
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift
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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Jonathan Swift
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
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Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.
Jonathan Swift
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Jonathan Swift
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift
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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.
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