"Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised" — Daniel Defoe
"Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised"
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Daniel Defoe
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63 Quotes by Daniel Defoe
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.
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Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord,…
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have…
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As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now,…
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No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe…
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In order to win, you must expect to win.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
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I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.
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