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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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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
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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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She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.
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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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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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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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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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It is never too late to be wise.
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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
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Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
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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.
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I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
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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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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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It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road.
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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.
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