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Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.
Daniel Defoe
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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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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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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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It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.
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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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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
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I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
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Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
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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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Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.
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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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I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.
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[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
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It is never too late to be wise.
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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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Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
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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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He that is rich is wise.
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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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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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