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


Jonathan Swift

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We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
DAVID MITCHELL Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way wi...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL It's not good enough for us to just make the state tournament,
GEORGE FISHER It's enough to make us worry. But it's not like Wrigley Field.
HAROLD FORD Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences ...
D.B. HARROP A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
PAUL KLEE We had enough race car, just not enough time. We might have been able to make a stab at the 38 [Sadl...
DALE EARNHARDT JR The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If ther...
BILLY SUNDAY It was all three goals, not just the last one. But I'm not content. I would be content if we won the...
AMADO GUEVARA A religion that is small enough for us to understand would not be large enough for our needs.
UNKNOWN Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We saw enough to make us think we've got some very fine tackles.
BILL YOUNG The world may be against us, but this love we have is enough to put this world beneath us.
JAYSON ENGAY A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not ...
JEAN ROSTAND A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not ...
JEAN ROSTAND If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
QUENTIN TARANTINO None of us were kidding when we said we wanted to have enough kids to make a Quidditch team, were we...
G. NORMAN LIPPERT The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful...
ELYSE M. FITZPATRICK You don't even care enough about us to hate us, do you?
WILLIAM GOLDING In fighting those who serve devils one always his this on one's side; their Masters hate them as muc...
C.S. LEWIS We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A single day is enough to make us a little larger.
PAUL KLEE We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each ot...
PETER DE VRIES When the team is getting better, it's tougher for a guy to make a team. And it's tougher for us coac...
BILL CASTRO We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just be...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Just living is not enough. One must have money, make-up, and camera lights flashing.
FLOWER ROSE I just wanted to make some money and have a job since I'm not old enough for another job, like in a ...
CAROLYN ANDERSON We just don't have enough information right now to make a comment.
STEVE WRIGHT This whole game is just designed to make us hate ourselves
UGLIES, SCOTT WESTERFELD I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it ...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT We are not and should not be a target of terrorists but we are alert for any possibilities, ... We h...
ABDUL AZIZ We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like eac...
PETER DE VRIES May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to ...
GEORGE WEINBERG May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to ...
MARCEL PAGNOL People make their own reality, goddess. We hate and we love for reasons that are known only to us.
SHERRILYN KENYON Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I wonder that every colored person is not a misanthrope. Surely we have everything to make us hate m...
CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to ...
UNKNOWN We didn't make our run early enough. And when we did make our run, we just didn't have enough left a...
MATT LOJESKI We want to make not just Americans, but the entire international community proud. It's not enough to...
BOB CTVRTLIK Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise...
HENRY WARD BEECHER We hate losing. But playing teams like this is only going to make us better.
BILL MOSS I didn't want to punt, so we took the shot and we were fortunate enough to make it. It got us going,...
MIKE SHERMAN We have a lot of young kids and they're going to make some mistakes, but we made just enough plays t...
BRODIE ODEGAARD I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I use...
STEVE MARABOLI Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLS There is enough dough in the world to make bread for us all to eat together.
HABEEB AKANDE For us to grow globally, it's not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator.
BOB IGER We cuss them because we're not good enough for them. We hate them because they wouldn't look at us, ...
JOHN GRISHAM True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The Witch 2015, has shown how religion make us, and where does this shit put us. How just by one rel...
DEYTH BANGER The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet ...
JAMES L. CHRISTENSEN We knew our strengths and played up our assets. But we couldn't see what made us unique enough for s...
SYLVIA DAY People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can...
ROBERT ZUBRIN The Creator made us to LOVE one another, but instead we have chosen to become judges and punishers!....
PHILIP T. M. We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who m...
SAMUEL BUTLER It's just a spark but it's enough to keep us going.
PARAMORE Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling ...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL I love you enough to never make you choose.
KATIE MCGARRY We did not get enough time to negotiate or to make any efforts for his safe return. Everything happe...
MANISH AGARWAL I like it a lot. That just goes to show the rapport we have with the coaches and they trust us enoug...
CHARLES TILLMAN It shouldn't have come down to that really. We didn't make enough plays throughout the game for it t...
DESHAUN FOSTER Hate is no temptation when love is not enough.
MYRAMUSIC Shakespeare will not make us better and will not make us worse, but he may allow us to overhear ours...
HAROLD BLOOM The Witch 2015, has shown how religion make us, and where does this shit put us. How just by one rel...
DEYTH BANGER Of course they haven't played together enough for us to make an adequate evaluation. But there's no ...
CARLOS ALBERTO PARREIRA I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every one of us lives his life just once; if we are honest, to live once is enough
GRETA GARBO I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
NED VIZZINI You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, ...
SAMUEL BUTLER The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change w...
ANTHONY MACKIE Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our ...
OSCAR WILDE We're just not playing aggressively enough in our brains to make things happen that are right there ...
CHARLIE HARVEY Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each o...
SHERI L. DEW Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they ...
MOTHER TERESA Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need...
MOTHER TERESA It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who ...
AGNES REPPLIER The desire for the creation to exist - not for a return on investment, not for what it may say about...
JAMES ROUSE One of the nicest privileges as an actor is to know that you can move people in one moment, make the...
GERARD BUTLER What’s a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
ROBERT ALTMAN What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
ROBERT ALTMAN I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money. We can never make eno...
DOUGLAS R. OBERHELMAN We don't have to hit a home run on every item. If we can make a few pennies and have satisfied custo...
BARRY PREVOR That's a number that is just high enough that they make some money off the deal, but just low enough...
ADAM JACOBS The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.
MATHEW HENRY The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.
MATTHEW HENRY It would be easy to say that I am disappointed that we did not make it, but frankly, we did not play...
RAJINDER SINGH No models are perfect but all models just need to be good enough to improve the decisions we make.
DAVID FOGARTY One loss is not going to kill us, but it is never good to take a loss. But we are lucky enough to ha...
ADAM MILLER I might need to make an adjustment there. I felt Gabby pitched well enough to get us a win.
KAREN KALHOEFER As Americans, we have a responsibility to say enough is enough. We will not sit quietly by as they t...
BURT COHEN Affliction comes to all not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise; not to make u...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our ...
OSCAR WILDE We had enough defensemen but not enough forwards and she seemed to be somebody who could make the mo...
KRISTIN STEELE It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better....
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JONATHAN SWIFT All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this ye...
JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends
JONATHAN SWIFT It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
JONATHAN SWIFT Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us th...
JONATHAN SWIFT Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller...
JONATHAN SWIFT The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowde...
JONATHAN SWIFT