“In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust of… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“I had never handled a tool in my life, and yet in time, by labour, application, and contrivance, I found at last… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“I would expostulate with myself why Providence should thus completely ruin His creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable; so without help,… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“Diligence and Application have their due Encouragement, even in the remotest Parts of the World, and that no Case can be so… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“All this labour I was at the expence of, purely from my apprehension on the account of the print of a man’s… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that middle station… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“He told me it was for men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortune on the other, who… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“I smiled at him, and told him that men in our circumstances were past the operation of fear: that seeing almost every… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“I had great Reason to consider it as a Determination of Heaven, that in this desolate Place, and in this desolate Manner… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“Strah od opasnosti je deset tisuća puta snažniji nego sama opasnost kad se pojavi pred očima.” — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“He told me it was for men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortune on the other, who when abroad… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“From this moment I began to conclude in my mind that it was possible for me to be more happy in this forsaken, solitary… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“was to prepare more land, for I had now seed enough to sow above an acre of ground. Before I did this, I had… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“and in that one night's wickedness I drowned all my repentance,all my reflections upon my past conduct,and all my resolution for the future.” — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.” — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“It is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another as it is to represent anything that really exists by that which… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
