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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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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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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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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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No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill me stay, give you one more laugh.
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Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
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Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.
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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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Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.
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He that is rich is wise.
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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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Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.
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Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
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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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The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy to sell again, take in to send out again, and the greatest Part of their vast Commerce consists in being supply'd from All Parts of the World, that they may supply All th World Again.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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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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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
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How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
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