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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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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
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For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
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It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining.
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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
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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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Pleasure is a thief to business.
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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 is never too late to be wise.
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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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I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.
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How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
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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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Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.
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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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In the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.
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It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road.
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I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
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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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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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