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Was sie im Himmel tun, das wissen wir nicht; was sie aber nicht tun, das wissen wir ganz genau, nämlich: sie freien nicht, noch lassen sie sich freien.
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Schriftsteller, Satiriker, "Gullivers Reisen" (England, 1667 - 1745).
Jonathan Swift · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Jonathan Swift wäre heute 356 Jahre, 9 Monate, 22 Tage oder 130.322 Tage alt.
Geboren am 30.11.1667 in Dublin
Gestorben am 19.10.1745 in Dublin
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Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manner as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.
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Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason; their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
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Once you kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
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Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
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Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, 'I'm sorry-but we all must die!'
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Praise is the daughter of present power.
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Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Religion is too often talked of, but too little known.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
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Say, Britain, could you ever boast, - Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.
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She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
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So geographers, in Afric-maps, With savage-pictures fill their gaps; And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
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So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
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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. Thus every poet, in his kind, Is bit by him that comes behind.
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Surely mortal man is a broomstick!
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Th' artillery of words.
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The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, (such) as the use of the compass, gunpowder and printing.
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.