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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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Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!
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I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.
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Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be of good Cheer, and he shall strengthen thy Heart wait, I say, on the Lord:' It is impossible to express the Comfort this gave me. In Answer, I thankfully laid down the Book, and was no more sad, at least, not on that Occasion.
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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
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[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
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How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
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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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Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.
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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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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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He that is rich is wise.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
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And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
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Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
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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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No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill me stay, give you one more laugh.
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I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.
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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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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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