"Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has……" — Daniel Defoe
"Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have."
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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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