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Daniel Defoe Quotes

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself Picture Quote #1

Expect nothing and you’ll always be surprised Picture Quote #1

Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are Picture Quote #1

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed Picture Quote #1

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination Picture Quote #1

Necessity makes an honest man a knave Picture Quote #1

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He that is rich is wise Picture Quote #1

Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay Picture Quote #1

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late Picture Quote #1

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens’s opinions Picture Quote #1

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares Picture Quote #1

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have Picture Quote #1

I hear much of people’s calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent Picture Quote #1

I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

This grieved me heartily ; and 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 Picture Quote #1

I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

He look’d a little disorder’d, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us’d to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them Picture Quote #1

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Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself (Daniel Defoe Quotes) Expect nothing and you’ll always be surprised (Daniel Defoe Quotes) Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are (Daniel Defoe Quotes) Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed (Daniel Defoe Quotes) Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination (Daniel Defoe Quotes) Necessity makes an honest man a knave (Daniel Defoe Quotes) He that is rich is wise (Daniel Defoe Quotes) Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay (Daniel Defoe Quotes) The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late (Daniel Defoe Quotes) The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear (Daniel Defoe Quotes) 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 (Daniel Defoe Quotes) Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes (Daniel Defoe Quotes) 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 (Daniel Defoe Quotes) He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens’s opinions (Daniel Defoe Quotes) As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares (Daniel Defoe Quotes) All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have (Daniel Defoe Quotes) I hear much of people’s calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent (Daniel Defoe Quotes) I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men (Daniel Defoe Quotes) ... 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 (Daniel Defoe Quotes) This grieved me heartily ; and 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 Quotes) I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be (Daniel Defoe Quotes) 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 (Daniel Defoe Quotes) The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without (Daniel Defoe Quotes) 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 (Daniel Defoe Quotes) All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them (Daniel Defoe Quotes) 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 (Daniel Defoe Quotes) 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 (Daniel Defoe Quotes) She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one (Daniel Defoe Quotes) 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 (Daniel Defoe Quotes) He look’d a little disorder’d, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us’d to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them (Daniel Defoe Quotes)

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