"The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of……" — Jonathan Swift
"The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans."
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271 Quotes by Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift has 271 quotes on this site.
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot,…
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot,…
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales…
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his…
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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its…
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out…
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their…
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More Compass Quotes
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
— John Perry Barlow
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars,…
— Joseph Addison
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My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.
— Michael Biehn
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I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just…
— Michael Bloomberg
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We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the…
— Kirk Cameron
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If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
— Steve Chabot
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
— William Ellery Channing
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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in…
— George H. W. Bush
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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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