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Jonathan Swift success

Jonathan Swift | success

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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Jonathan Swift strength

Jonathan Swift | strength

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.

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Jonathan Swift religion

Jonathan Swift | religion

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

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Jonathan Swift religion

Jonathan Swift | religion

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

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift | power

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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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift | power

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

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Jonathan Swift politics

Jonathan Swift | politics

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

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Jonathan Swift Nature

Jonathan Swift | nature

Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

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Jonathan Swift morning

Jonathan Swift | morning

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

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Jonathan Swift money

Jonathan Swift | money

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

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