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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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How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
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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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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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He that is rich is wise.
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Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be of good Cheer, and he shall strengthen thy Heart wait, I say, on the Lord:' It is impossible to express the Comfort this gave me. In Answer, I thankfully laid down the Book, and was no more sad, at least, not on that Occasion.
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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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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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And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
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[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
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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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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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It is never too late to be wise.
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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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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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Law is but a heathen word for power.
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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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Pleasure is a thief to business.
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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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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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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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