Apprehension Quote by Daniel Defoe

“Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.”

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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