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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.

Daniel Defoe

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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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London
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Daniel Foe
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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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Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
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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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For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
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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.
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Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
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I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
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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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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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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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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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Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
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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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He that Opposes his own Judgment against the Current of the Times, ought to be back'd with unanswerable Truths and he that has that Truth on his Side, is a Fool, as well as a Coward, if he is afraid to own it, because of the Currency or Multitude of other Mens Opinions.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be of good Cheer, and he shall strengthen thy Heart wait, I say, on the Lord:' It is impossible to express the Comfort this gave me. In Answer, I thankfully laid down the Book, and was no more sad, at least, not on that Occasion.
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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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Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.
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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
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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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