"Thus we never see the true state of……" — Daniel Defoe
"Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it."
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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 Condition Quotes
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
— Margaret Atwood
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
— Roland Barthes
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
— Bruce Barton
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
— Saint Basil
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
— Georges Bataille
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most…
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