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Rather than assuming weakness or defectiveness, we should acknowledge that getting through depression requires considerable strength. Rather than assuming permanent debility, we should recognize that some depressions are followed by thriving.


Jonathan Rottenberg

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JONATHAN SWIFT Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down!
JONATHAN SWIFT For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
JONATHAN SWIFT Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
JONATHAN SWIFT They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
JONATHAN SWIFT What some invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT I heard the little bird say so.
JONATHAN SWIFT A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
JONATHAN SWIFT So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller sti...
JONATHAN SWIFT A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
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