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Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Daniel Defoe
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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.
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I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.
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No man commits evil for the sake of it even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
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It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.
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Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
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