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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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Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
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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.
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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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Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
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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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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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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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Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.
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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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No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill me stay, give you one more laugh.
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Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
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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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I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
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Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
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How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
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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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Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.
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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
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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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For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
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