“From this moment I began to conclude in my mind that it was possible for me to be more happy in this… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“How infinitely good that Providence is which has provided, in its government of mankind, such narrow bounds to his sight and knowledge… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“This renewed a contemplation which often had come to my thoughts in former time, when first I began to see the merciful… — 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
“That as my sister-in-law at Colchester had said, beauty, wit, manners, sense, good humour, good behaviour, education, virtue, piety, or any other… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
And which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what… — 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