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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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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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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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And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
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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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Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.
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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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Pleasure is a thief to business.
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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 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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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
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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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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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For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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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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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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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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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
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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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