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In trouble to be troubled Is to have your trouble doubled - Daniel Defoe Quotes

In trouble to be troubled Is to have your trouble doubled

One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand. - Daniel Defoe Quotes

One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late - Daniel Defoe Quotes

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late

He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters - Daniel Defoe Quotes

He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters

Pride the first peer and president of hell. - Daniel Defoe Quotes

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

English Journalist

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch - Daniel Defoe Quotes

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch

The main street is the most spacious, the longest and best inhabited street in Europe... the buildings are surprising both for strength, for beauty, and for height... - Daniel Defoe Quotes

The main street is the most spacious, the longest and best inhabited street in Europe... the buildings are surprising both for strength, for beauty, and for height...

They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and the like; and above all, upon their ancient heroes: their King Caractacus Owen ap Tudor, Prince Lewellin, and the like noblemen and princes of Britis - Daniel Defoe Quotes

They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and the like; and above all, upon their ancient heroes: their King Caractacus Owen ap Tudor, Prince Lewellin, and the like noblemen and princes of Britis

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

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

Army

And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. - Daniel Defoe Quotes

And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. - Daniel Defoe Quotes

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

English Journalist

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. - Daniel Defoe Quotes

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

English Journalist

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation - Daniel Defoe Quotes

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation

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

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

Body

Tis no sin to cheat the devil - Daniel Defoe Quotes

Tis no sin to cheat the devil

Cheat

We lov'd the doctrine for the teachers sake - Daniel Defoe Quotes

We lov'd the doctrine for the teachers sake

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. - Daniel Defoe Quotes

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

English Journalist Eyes

Necessity makes an honest man a knave - Daniel Defoe Quotes

Necessity makes an honest man a knave

My man Friday (Robinson Crusoe) - Daniel Defoe Quotes

My man Friday (Robinson Crusoe)

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 Quotes

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.

Middle age is youth without its levity,/ And age without decay. - Daniel Defoe Quotes

Middle age is youth without its levity,/ And age without decay.

We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake. - Daniel Defoe Quotes

We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.

He that is rich is wise - Daniel Defoe Quotes

He that is rich is wise

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation - Daniel Defoe Quotes

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation

God

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. - Daniel Defoe Quotes

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

English Journalist

All men would be tyrants if they could. - Daniel Defoe Quotes

All men would be tyrants if they could.

English Journalist

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could - Daniel Defoe Quotes

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could

From this amphibious ill-born mob began That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman. - Daniel Defoe Quotes

From this amphibious ill-born mob began That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.

Mob

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. - Daniel Defoe Quotes

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

English Journalist

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could. - Daniel Defoe Quotes

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

English Journalist

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late. - Daniel Defoe Quotes

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

English Journalist

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer. - Daniel Defoe Quotes

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

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