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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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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.
Daniel Defoe
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
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.
Daniel Defoe
He that is rich is wise.
Daniel Defoe
I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
Daniel Defoe
How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
Daniel Defoe
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.
Daniel Defoe
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.
Daniel Defoe
What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
Daniel Defoe
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.
Daniel Defoe
Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
Daniel Defoe
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.
Daniel Defoe
Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!
Daniel Defoe
Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
Daniel Defoe
Not the man in the moon, not the groaning-board, not the speaking of friar Bacon's brazen- head, not the inspiration of mother Shipton, or the miracles of Dr. Faustus, things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
Daniel Defoe
Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.
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.
Daniel Defoe
For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
Daniel Defoe
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
Daniel Defoe
And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
Daniel Defoe
