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Daniel Defoe Quotes: "It is never too late to be wise."

It is never too late to be wise.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself."

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.




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."

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

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




Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes."

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised"

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised



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

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




Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Necessity makes an honest man a knave."

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Pride, the first peer and president of Hell."

Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.



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."

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: "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."

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.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent."

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.




Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation."

Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm."

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.



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

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



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."

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: "'Tis no sin to cheat the devil."

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Friends are good,--good, if well chosen."

Friends are good,--good, if well chosen.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Though I don't like the crew, I won't sink the ship. In fact, in time of storm I'll do my best to save it. You see, we are all in this craft and must sink or swim together."

Though I don't like the crew, I won't sink the ship. In fact, in time of storm I'll do my best to save it. You see, we are all in this craft and must sink or swim together.



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

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



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme."

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are."

Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over."

I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.



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

All men would be tyrants if they could.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled."

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Business neglected is business lost."

Business neglected is business lost.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh."

No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.



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

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



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst."

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be."

I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Pleasure is a thief to business."

Pleasure is a thief to business.



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

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



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."

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: "Law is but a heathen word for power."

Law is but a heathen word for power.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it."

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed."

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves."

We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes"

Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive."

Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.



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."

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: "For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first."

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who."

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!"

How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it."

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.



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."

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: "He that is rich is wise."

He that is rich is wise.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise."

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.



Daniel Defoe Quotes: "Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction."

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.



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."

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.