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• With a whirl of thought oppressed
  I sink from reverie to rest.
  An horrid vision seized my head,
  I saw the graves give up their dead.

  Jonathan Swift

  Giving Up, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Jonathan Swift, Alexander Norman Jeffares (1992). “The selected poems”

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• From not the gravest of Divines,
  Accept for once some serious Lines.

  Jonathan Swift

  Poetry, Lines, Serious

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1754). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates. With Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes, Historical and Explanatory”, p.142

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• Bajo esta ventana en tiempo de tormenta caso a este hombre y a esta mujer juntos; Que nadie sino Aquel que gobierna el trueno Separe a este hombre y a esta mujer.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Weather, Together

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• Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.

  Jonathan Swift

  Eating, Lord, Porpoises

  Jonathan Swift (1741). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing, I. His Miscellanies in prose. II. His poetical writings. III. The travels of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. IV. Papers relating to Ireland, and The Drapier's letters. V. The conduct of the allies, and The examiners. VI. The publick spirit of the Whiggs, &c. with Polite conversation. VII. Letters to and from Dr. Swift. VIII. Directions to servants, sermons, poems, &c”, p.326

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• It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

  Jonathan Swift

  Government, Hands, Administration

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1109, Delphi Classics

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• When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

  Jonathan Swift

  Christian, Spiritual, Men

  Jonathan Swift (1823). “The Select Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing the Whole of His Poetical Works, the Tale of a Tab, Battle of the Books, Gulliver's Travels, Directions to Servants, Art of Punning, Etc”, p.300

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• For in that universal call,
  Few bankers will to heaven be mounters;
  They'll cry, "Ye shops, upon us fall!
  Conceal and cover us, ye counters!
  When other hands the scales shall hold,
  And they, in men's and angels' sight
  Produced with all their bills and gold,
  'Weigh'd in the balance and found light!'

  Jonathan Swift

  Fall, Angel, Men

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1883). “Historical tracts. Political poetry. Poems chiefly relating to Irish politics”

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• Yo con plata prestada brillo,
  Lo que ves no es mío.
  Primero te muestro sólo una cuarta parte,
  Como el arco que guarda el tártaro:
  Luego la mitad, y luego el todo,
  Siempre bailando alrededor del poste.

  Jonathan Swift

  Moon, Dancing, Shining

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841”, p.742

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• In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

  Jonathan Swift

  Kings, Men, Voting

  Jonathan Swift, Jesse Gale, Cynthia Brantley Johnson (2005). “Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Science, Astrology

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1766). “The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates, with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.194

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• Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Talent, Despise

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• La persona más ignorante, por un precio razonable, y con un poco de trabajo corporal, podría escribir libros de filosofía, poesía, política, leyes, matemáticas y teología, sin la menor ayuda del genio o del estudio.

  Jonathan Swift

  Filosofía, Libro, Escritura

  Jonathan Swift (2013). "Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)", p.583, Delphi Classics.

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• By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.

  Jonathan Swift

  País, Libertad, Derecho

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D”, p.295

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• Los libros, como los hombres sus autores, no tienen más que una forma de entrar en el mundo, pero hay diez mil para salir de él, y no volver más.

  Jonathan Swift

  Libro, Hombres, Mundo

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• He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Ungrateful, Veils

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• En todo lo que deseo, qué feliz debería ser,
  Tú, gran Deludor, si no fuera por ti.
  Tan débil eres que los necios desprecian tu poder;
  Pero tan fuerte, que triunfas sobre los sabios.

  Jonathan Swift

  Vida, Sabio, Arte

  Jonathan Swift (1841). "The works of Jonathan Swift, containing papers not hitherto publ. with memoir of the author by T. Roscoe", p.682.

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• Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

  Jonathan Swift

  Onions, Should

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• Just get the right syllable in the proper place.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sílabas

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• There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

  Jonathan Swift

  Revenge, Men, Practice

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.610

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• A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

  Jonathan Swift

  Bills, Figs, Show Me

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• En opinión de todos los cocineros
  no hay plato salado sin cebolla,
  pero para que no se eche a perder su besos
  las cebollas deben estar completamente hervidas.

  Jonathan Swift

  Comida, Besos, Cocina

  Jonathan Swift, "Los gritos de las mujeres del mercado"

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• Tories triunfantes y Whigs abatidos,
  olviden sus rencillas y únanse para salvar sus pelucas.

  Jonathan Swift

  Lluvia, pelucas, disputas

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1754). "Las Obras de Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates. With Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes, Historical and Explanatory", p.45

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• El pan es el bastón de la vida.

  Jonathan Swift

  Comida, Pan, Comer

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", de Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, Tale of a Tub, 1922.

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• La adulación es la peor y más falsa manera de demostrar nuestra estima.

  Jonathan Swift

  Camino, Adulación, Peor

  Jonathan Swift (1861). "Las obras de Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions", p.625

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• Venus, una bella y bondadosa dama, era la diosa del amor; Juno, una terrible arpía, la diosa del matrimonio: y siempre fueron enemigas mortales.

  Jonathan Swift

  Beautiful, Enemy, Shrews

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Miscellaneous essays”, p.234

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