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[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .

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Daniel Defoe
Age: 70 †
Born: 1660
Born: September 30
Died: 1731
Died: April 24
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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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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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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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Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.
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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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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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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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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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Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
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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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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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Law is but a heathen word for power.
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