"Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today……" — 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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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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More Apprehension Quotes
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
— Honore de Balzac
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
— Henri Bergson
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom…
— Donald Cargill
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
— Florence Nightingale
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they…
— Alexander Pope
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
— Karl Barth
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is…
— Susan Sontag
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My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power…
— William Wordsworth
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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
— Edmund Burke
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Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
— Heraclitus
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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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