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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.
Daniel Defoe
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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
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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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Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
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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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Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.
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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 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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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 saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
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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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Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.
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Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
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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 had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.
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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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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
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Pleasure is a thief to business.
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