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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?

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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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He that is rich is wise.
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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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How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
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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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A rich man is an honest man--no thanks to him for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.
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Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
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The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy to sell again, take in to send out again, and the greatest Part of their vast Commerce consists in being supply'd from All Parts of the World, that they may supply All th World Again.
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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 is never too late to be wise.
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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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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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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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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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Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.
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Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
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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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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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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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