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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
Daniel Defoe
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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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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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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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Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.
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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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Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.
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And which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
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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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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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Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
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Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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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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No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill me stay, give you one more laugh.
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And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
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I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
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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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He that is rich is wise.
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No man commits evil for the sake of it even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.
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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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