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Jonathan Swift on Anniversary

1667–1745 Ireland

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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711)

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711)

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

Ever eating, never cloying,
All-devouring, all-destroying,
Never finding full repast,
Till I eat the world at last.

Under this window in stormy weather
I marry this man and woman together;
Let none but Him who rules the thunder
Put this man and woman asunder.

In all I wish, how happy should I be,
Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee?
So weak thou art that fools thy power despise;
And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly: that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711)

As love without esteem is volatile and capricious; esteem without love is languid and cold.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jonathan Swift (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.