Health is the greatest of all possessions.

Jonathan Swift

Health Greatest Possessions

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Words are the clothing of our thoughts.

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Words Clothing Thoughts

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Books, the children of the brain.

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Books Children Brain

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

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Power Blessing Protect Innocent

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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.

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Man Ashamed Wrong Wiser

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There is no absolute success in the world, only constant progress.

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Absolute success World Constant Progress

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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall be disappointed.

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Blessed Expects nothing Disappointed

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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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Religion Hate Love

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Every day is an opportunity to a make a new happy ending

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Every day Opportunity Happy ending

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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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Power Fortune Happy Success

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Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

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Simplicity Performance Perfection

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To get angry is like to revenge yourself for the guilt of others.

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Angry Revenge Guilt

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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

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Useless Reason Man

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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

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Vision Art Seeing Invisible

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

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Wise person Money Head Heart

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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

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Man Desires Live long Old

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Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.

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Proper words Defination Style

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Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

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Happiness Possession Deceived

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

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Government Cosent Slavery

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A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.

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Wise man Less Alone

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May you live all the days of your life.

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Live Days Life

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

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Love Esteem Volatile Cold

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Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

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Notion Virtue Honesty Religion

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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

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Satire Beholders Discover Own

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Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.

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Good manners Art People Comfortable

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Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

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Punning Talent Man Despise

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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

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Laws Cobwebs Break through

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Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.

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Nations Hungry Proud Variance

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Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.

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Books Authors World Return

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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

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Reading Book Wise Alive

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We are so fond of one another because our ailments are the same.

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Fond Ailments Same

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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

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Brisk talkers Slow Thinkers

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Observation is an old manâ€™s memory.

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Observation Old man's Memory

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The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

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Noblest Sweetness Light

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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers.

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Positiveness Quality Speakers

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"35 Jonathan Swift Quotes & Sayings

Health is the greatest of all possessions.

Jonathan Swift

Words are the clothing of our thoughts.

Jonathan Swift

Books, the children of the brain.

Jonathan Swift

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Jonathan Swift

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

Jonathan Swift

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall be disappointed.

Jonathan Swift

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift

Every day is an opportunity to a make a new happy ending

Jonathan Swift

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Jonathan Swift

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

Jonathan Swift

To get angry is like to revenge yourself for the guilt of others.

Jonathan Swift

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Jonathan Swift

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Jonathan Swift

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.

Jonathan Swift

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Jonathan Swift

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Jonathan Swift

A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.

Jonathan Swift

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Jonathan Swift

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Jonathan Swift

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Jonathan Swift

Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.

Jonathan Swift

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

Jonathan Swift

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Jonathan Swift

Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.

Jonathan Swift

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.

Jonathan Swift

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Jonathan Swift

We are so fond of one another because our ailments are the same.

Jonathan Swift

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

Jonathan Swift

Observation is an old manâ€™s memory.

Jonathan Swift

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

Jonathan Swift

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers.

Jonathan Swift

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