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Law is but a heathen word for power.

Daniel Defoe

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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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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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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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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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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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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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Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
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Pleasure is a thief to business.
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How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
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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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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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No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill me stay, give you one more laugh.
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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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Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.
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Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
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For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
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Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.
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Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.
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I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
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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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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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