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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to the other.
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Aphorisms by Jonathan Swift
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
Hobbes confounds the executive with the legislative power, though all well-instituted states have ever placed them in different hands.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Another cause which hath maimed our language is a foolish opinion that we ought to spell exactly as we speak.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and orators, because he that would obtrude his thoughts and reasons upon a multitude, will convince others the more, as he appears convinced himself.
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It is found by experience, those men who set up for morality without regard to religion are generally but virtuous in part.
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All the writers against Christianity since the Revolution have been of the lowest rank in regard to literature, wit, and sense; and upon that account wholly unqualified to propagate heresies, unless among a people already abandoned.
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Since the ladies have been left out of all meetings except parties of play, our conversation hath degenerated.
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Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbours: however, they are real blessings when in the hands of good men.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
It is the editor's interest to insert what the author's judgment had rejected; and care is taken to intersperse these additions, so that scarce any book can be bought without purchasing something unworthy of the author.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Hereditary right should be kept sacred; not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.
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