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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
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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
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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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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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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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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 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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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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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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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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I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.
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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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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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Law is but a heathen word for power.
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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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He that is rich is wise.
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Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
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