Appeals Quote by Daniel Defoe

“Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.” quote by Daniel Defoe — Download Open image

“Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.”

Daniel Defoe

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“Strah od opasnosti je deset tisuća puta snažniji nego sama opasnost kad se pojavi pred očima.”

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“He told me it was for men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortune on the other, who when abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprize, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road; that these things were all either too far above me, or to far below me; that…

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“From this moment I began to conclude in my mind that it was possible for me to be more happy in this forsaken, solitary…

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Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.

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Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has…

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Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

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“was to prepare more land, for I had now seed enough to sow above an acre of ground. Before I did this, I had a week's work at least to make me a spade, which, when it was done, was but a sorry one indeed, and very heavy, and required double labour to work with it. However, I got through…

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Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

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“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.”

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“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”

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As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to…

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“It is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another as it is to represent anything that really exists by that which…

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