Jonathan Swift - Love Quotes

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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last!

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I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

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Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

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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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I have ever hated all nations, professions and communities, and all my love is towards individuals…But principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

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Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

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111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

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Love why do we one passion call,
When 'tis a compound of them all?
Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet,
In all their equipages meet;
Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear,
Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.

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The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.

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A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.

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