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Daniel Defoe Quotes

Best Quotes by Daniel Defoe (Top 10)

  1. It is never too late to be wise.
  2. The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
  3. Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
  4. Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised
  5. I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
  6. 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.
  7. I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
  8. I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather than what I wanted : and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them ; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
  9. All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
  10. 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.

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