"What some people invent the rest enlarge." — Jonathan Swift
"What some people invent the rest enlarge."
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Jonathan Swift
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271 Quotes by Jonathan Swift
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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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We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
— Robert Burton
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We may be forced to consume considerable time before the spirit cooperates. For example, God would like to enlarge the…
— Watchman Nee
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There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part…
— Victor Hugo
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Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural…
— Adolf Hitler
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Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
— Isaac Watts
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The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
— Anne Sullivan Macy
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In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other…
— Thomas Paine
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The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the…
— Immanuel Kant
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To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Let God enlarge you when you are going through distress. He can do it. You can't do it, and others…
— Warren W. Wiersbe
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