"I could not forbear getting up to the……" — Daniel Defoe
"I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly."
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63 Quotes by Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe has 63 quotes on this site.
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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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More Almost Blind Quotes
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To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.
— Flannery O'Connor
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I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at…
— Claude Monet
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Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.
— Gerhard Richter
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Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind…
— George Washington
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When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal…
— Flannery O'Connor
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I fell in love, it slowly dimmed leaving me almost blind. But somehow I managed to build a ladder and…
— Unknown Author
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