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“Everyone desires long life, not one old age.”

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Jonathan Swift, born on November 30, 1667, and died on October 19, 1745, was an Irish writer, satirist, and politician, renowned for his satirical works. more

“If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.”

Ifs Thinking Should Self Light Suffering Mistake Alive Creating Insight Making Mistakes Concentration Impermanence

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“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

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

Mind Virtue Mankind

Book:The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

“Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.”

Giving May Shows Hours Depends Rain Cat Careful Pursue Observation Dread Tails Observers Pensive

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“Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.”

Blood Rain Cat Guts Flood Mud Puppy Sweeping Butchers Tumbling Turnips Tumbling Down

Book:The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

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