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He that is rich is wise.
Daniel Defoe
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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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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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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
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Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.
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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 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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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
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For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them or that they who talk of such things never do them.
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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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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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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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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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I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
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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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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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Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.
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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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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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