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Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated) QUOTES

1 " How low an opinion I had of human wisdom and integrity, when I was truly informed of the springs and motives of great enterprises and revolutions in the world, and of the contemptible accidents to which they owed their success "

― Jonathan Swift , Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

2 " Beauty and wit, too sad a truth, Have always been confined to youth; The god of wit, and beauty’s queen, He twenty-one, and she fifteen; No poet ever sweetly sung. Unless he were like Phœbus, young; Nor ever nymph inspired to rhyme, Unless like Venus in her prime. At fifty-six, if this be true, Am I a poet fit for you; Or at the age of forty-three, Are you a subject fit for me? Adieu bright wit, and radiant eyes; You must be grave, and I be wise. Our fate in vain we would oppose, But I’ll be still your friend in prose; Esteem and friendship to express, Will not require poetic dress; And if the muse deny her aid To have them sung, they may be said. "

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3 " We have no better materials to compound the priesthood of, than the mass of mankind, which corrupted as it is, those who receive orders must have some vices to leave behind them when they enter into the Church, and if a few do still adhere, it is no wonder, but rather a great one that they are no worse. Therefore "

― Jonathan Swift , Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

4 " But though a Church of England man thinks every species of government equally lawful, he does not think them equally expedient; or for every country indifferently. There "

― Jonathan Swift , Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

5 " while the whole operation "

― Jonathan Swift , Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

6 " How Peter, enraged at the loss of such large territories, and consequently of so much revenue, thundered against Martin, "

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7 " And here, though it makes an odd sound, yet it is necessary to say, that whoever professes himself a member of the Church of England, ought to believe a God and his providence, together with revealed religion, and the divinity of Christ. For "

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