Jonathan Swift
English writer
Lived from: 1667 - 1745
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom
Born: 30 november 1667 Died: 19 october 1745
Quotes 81 till 90 of 90.
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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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What some people invent the rest enlarge.
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly: that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)― Jonathan Swift -
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
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Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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