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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.

Daniel Defoe

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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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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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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 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 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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And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
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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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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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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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Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.
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Law is but a heathen word for power.
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Pleasure is a thief to business.
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Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
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Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
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I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.
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