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It is never too late to be wise.
Daniel Defoe
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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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He that Opposes his own Judgment against the Current of the Times, ought to be back'd with unanswerable Truths and he that has that Truth on his Side, is a Fool, as well as a Coward, if he is afraid to own it, because of the Currency or Multitude of other Mens Opinions.
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I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.
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A rich man is an honest man--no thanks to him for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.
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She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.
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Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.
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Law is but a heathen word for power.
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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
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Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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Not the man in the moon, not the groaning-board, not the speaking of friar Bacon's brazen- head, not the inspiration of mother Shipton, or the miracles of Dr. Faustus, things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
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He that is rich is wise.
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Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
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Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
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For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
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Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.
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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
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He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them or that they who talk of such things never do them.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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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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All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.
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