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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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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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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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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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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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And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
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Law is but a heathen word for power.
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[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
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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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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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Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
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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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I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.
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I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
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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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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
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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 is never too late to be wise.
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