Jonathan Swift - Mankind Quotes

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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning?

Jonathan Swift

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

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It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

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Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

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And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.

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The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

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And, is not Virtue in Mankind
The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?

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That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Jonathan Swift