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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.
Daniel Defoe
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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
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Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation.
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In the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.
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[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
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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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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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How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
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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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Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
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And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
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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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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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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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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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