Discontents Quotes by Daniel Defoe

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• The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers… — Thomas Jefferson
• God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world… — Douglas Wilson
• How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well,… — Bradford Morrow
• Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of… — Edmund Leach
• The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than… — W G Sebald
• Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of… — Josip Novakovich
• All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. — Daniel Defoe
• Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All… — Daniel Defoe
• I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what… — Daniel Defoe
• He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme… — Elena Ferrante
• Let thy discontents be thy secrets — Benjamin Franklin

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