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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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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 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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Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.
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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
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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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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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It is never too late to be wise.
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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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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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No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill me stay, give you one more laugh.
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I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.
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He that is rich is wise.
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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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Law is but a heathen word for power.
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How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
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I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
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Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
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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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[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
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For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
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