As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
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Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown No more I hear my church's bell Than if it rang out for my knell At thunder now no more I start Than at the rumbling of a cartJonathan Swift
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
Jonathan Swift
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Jonathan Swift
In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue of teaching ministers to consult the public good of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
Jonathan Swift
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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