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Pleasure is a thief to business.
Daniel Defoe
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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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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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I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
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Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
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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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How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
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Avery fine city the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together? In a word,'tis the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted.
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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 hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
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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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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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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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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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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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And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
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It is never too late to be wise.
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I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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