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.
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All men would be tyrants if they could.Daniel Defoe
In the morning, looking towards the sea side, the tide being low, I saw something lie on the shore bigger than ordinary, and it looked like a cask when I came to it, I found a small barrel, and two or three pieces of the wreck of the ship, which were driven on shore by the late hurrican and looking towards the wreck itself, I thought it seemed to lie higher out of the water than it used to do.
Daniel Defoe
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
Daniel Defoe
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
Daniel Defoe
Now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
Daniel Defoe
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
Daniel Defoe
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