Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
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Quotes by Jonathan Swift
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
May you live all the days of your life.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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.
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Observation is an old man's memory.
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