Daniel Defoe Quotes

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• Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
• And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
• Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
• Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
• The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.
• Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be of good Cheer,…
• All men would be tyrants if they could.
• In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
• As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
• Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to help or hear…
• As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and…
• No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.
• It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.
• Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!
• Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
• 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…
• 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
• In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled! [People who get upset and worried at the first sign of misfortune are only…
• The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy to sell again,…
• Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

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