“Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.Quote by Jonathan SwiftTopics: Quotes about Jonathan SwiftShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen...#Jonathan Swift
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and...#Jonathan Swift
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.#Jonathan Swift
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting...#Jonathan Swift
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should...#Jonathan Swift
