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Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
No preacher is listened to but Time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
Most sorts of diversions in men, children, and other animals are imitation of fighting.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Inspirational Quote
Here is the secret of inspiration: tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
Family Quote
You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.
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