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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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London
England
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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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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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And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
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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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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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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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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
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He that is rich is wise.
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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
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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[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
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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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I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.
Daniel Defoe
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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Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.
Daniel Defoe
The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy to sell again, take in to send out again, and the greatest Part of their vast Commerce consists in being supply'd from All Parts of the World, that they may supply All th World Again.
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