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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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London
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Daniel Foe
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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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Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.
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How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
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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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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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 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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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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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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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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No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill me stay, give you one more laugh.
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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
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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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Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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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 saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
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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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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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