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• Porque aunque, en la naturaleza, la profundidad y la altura
  son igualmente infinitas:
  En poesía, la altura que conocemos;
  Sólo es infinito abajo.

  Jonathan Swift

  Belleza, Arte, Profundidad

  Jonathan Swift (1841). "Las Obras. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -Londres, Washbourne 1841", p.654

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• Cuando los hombres se vuelven virtuosos en su vejez, sólo hacen un sacrificio a Dios de las sobras del diablo.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sacrificio, Hombres, Dejando

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1813). "The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...", p.365

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• In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

  Jonathan Swift

  Adversity, Ease, Firsts

  'Verses on the Death of Dr Swift' (1731) l. 7

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• The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

  Jonathan Swift

  Spring, Mean, Rivers

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.202

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• Por lo demás, todo lo que hemos conseguido ha sido gracias a un trabajo y una búsqueda infinitos, y recorriendo todos los rincones de la naturaleza; la diferencia es que en lugar de suciedad y veneno, hemos preferido llenar nuestras colmenas de miel y cera, proporcionando así a la humanidad las dos cosas más nobles, que son la dulzura y la luz.

  Jonathan Swift

  Light, Two, Differences

  The Battle of the Books (1704) See Matthew Arnold 27

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• Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

  Jonathan Swift

  Friends, Enemy, Misfortunes

  Jonathan Swift, “Verses On The Death Of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.”

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• It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strong, Believe, Army

  Jonathan Swift (1857). “The works of Dean Swift: comprising A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, with thoughts and essays on various subjects, together with The Dean's advice to a young lady on her marriage”, p.250

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• Lo que más me fastidia es que mis amigas, que me soportaban muy bien hace una docena de años, ahora me han abandonado, aunque no soy tan viejo en proporción a ellas como antes: lo cual puedo probar por aritmética, pues entonces tenía el doble de su edad, cosa que ahora no tengo. Carta a Alexander Pope. 7 de febrero de 1736.

  Jonathan Swift

  Amistad, Años, Edad

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). "Las obras de Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author", p.764

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• The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

  Jonathan Swift

  Science, Oxen, Feet

  Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works”, p.388

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• Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

  Jonathan Swift

  War, Differences, Long

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “The Very Best of Jonathan Swift In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.395, BookCaps Study Guides

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• No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

  Jonathan Swift

  Time, People, Giving

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.222

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• God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

  Jonathan Swift

  Pasión, Razón

  Thoughts on Religion (1765)

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• ... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

  Jonathan Swift

  Atheist, Names, Atheism

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.56

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• Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

  Jonathan Swift

  Genius, Prodigies, Last Words

  Jonathan Swift (1998). “The Sayings of Jonathan Swift”, p.44, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

  Jonathan Swift

  Race, Gulliver, Earth

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Brobdingnag" ch. 6 (1726)

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• Es una locura de muchos confundir el eco de un café londinense con la voz del reino.

  Jonathan Swift

  Mistake, Coffee, Echoes

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “-5. Tracts, historical and political, during the reign of Queen Anne”, p.365

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• So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

  Jonathan Swift

  Fleas, Ems, Mathematics

  On Poetry" l. 337 (1733)

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• A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Games, Play, May

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). “Miscellaneous pieces”, p.4

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• The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.

  Jonathan Swift

  Running, Oil, Sides

  Jonathan Swift, “A Description Of A City Shower”

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• Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hate, Animal, Men

  Letter to Alexander Pope, 29 Sept. 1725

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• No confían sólo en su lengua, sino que hablan un lenguaje propio; pueden leer un movimiento de cabeza, un encogimiento de hombros, una mirada, mucho mejor que un libro impreso; transmiten una calumnia en un ceño fruncido, y guiñan un ojo a una reputación.

  Jonathan Swift

  Libro, Miradas, Escándalo

  Diario de una dama moderna" (1729) l. 188

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• Todo el mundo quiere vivir para siempre, pero nadie quiere envejecer.

  Jonathan Swift

  Para Siempre, Edad, Querer

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• No puedo imaginar por qué deberíamos estar a expensas de proporcionar ingenio para las épocas venideras, cuando las primeras no han hecho ningún tipo de provisión para la nuestra.

  Jonathan Swift

  Edad, Triunfar, Imaginar

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). "The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author", p.273.

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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.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hombres, Yo, Mayo

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.305

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• The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

  Jonathan Swift

  Green, Trunks, Intemperance

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics

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