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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
Daniel Defoe
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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
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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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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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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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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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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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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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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
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She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.
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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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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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[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
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I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.
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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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