Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Died: October 19, 1745, Dublin, Ireland Website Facebook X/Twitter

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

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And Hide in the Shadows

by Plato and others in Figures of Speech

The light is a heavy burden to bear when your character of virtue is surrounded by darkness. Sustainable for sure, but the economies of ideal ideas need no idols. Have you heard the analogy of the cave? Better yet, have you seen the light?

It's a Given!

by Jonathan Swift and others in Figures of Speech

But really living is what this obvious point is from Jonathan Swift. The meaning you assign to life is the narrator yelling, "Places! Places everyone!! The stage play is ongoing, tragic and never-lasting.

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