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Daniel Defoe
English
Journalist
About the author
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
Daniel Defoe,
English
Journalist
#Men
'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
Daniel Defoe,
English
Journalist
#Sin
#Devil
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Daniel Defoe,
English
Journalist
#Necessity
#Vice
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Daniel Defoe,
English
Journalist
#Will
#Soul
#Body
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
Daniel Defoe,
English
Journalist
#World
#Thought
#Country
#Women
#Learning
#Christian
Pride the first peer and president of hell.
Daniel Defoe,
English
Journalist
#President
#Hell
#First
#Pride
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
Daniel Defoe,
English
Journalist
#Sheep
#Army
All men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe,
English
Journalist
#Men
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
Daniel Defoe,
English
Journalist
#Want
#Spring
#Thankfulness
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
Daniel Defoe,
English
Journalist
#Will
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
Daniel Defoe,
English
Journalist
#Evil
#Poverty
#Covetousness
He that is rich is wise.
Daniel Defoe,
English
Journalist
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
Daniel Defoe,
English
Journalist
#Trouble
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Daniel Defoe,
English
Journalist
#Man
#Eyes
#Justice
#Party
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe,
English
Journalist
#Men
#Nature
#Blood
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Daniel Defoe,
English
Journalist
#Man
#Necessity
#Knave