Daniel Defoe Short Quotes

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

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

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What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?...

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

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

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

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

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

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Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity.

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

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

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'Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.

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I might, at sixty-one years of age, have been a little inclined to stay at home.

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In their religion they are so uneven,
That each man goes his own byway to heaven.

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Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.

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

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

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Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

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

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He that makes his pleasure be his business, will never make his business be a pleasure.

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

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

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

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All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

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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.

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

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She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.

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I never saw them afterwards, or any sign of them, except three of their hats, one cap, and two shoes that were not fellows.
On his shipmates

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