The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Quote by Jonathan Swift
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Jonathan Swift Quotes
- It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
- We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.
- We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.
- It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
- We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
- I row after health like a waterman...
- Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
- Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
- When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
- Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
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