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Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
Daniel Defoe
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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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London
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Daniel Foe
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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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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Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.
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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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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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Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.
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Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.
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For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
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Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
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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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It is never too late to be wise.
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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
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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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Pleasure is a thief to business.
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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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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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Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation.
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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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Law is but a heathen word for power.
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Avery fine city the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together? In a word,'tis the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted.
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