42 Greatest Quotes By Daniel Defoe, The Author Of Robinson Crusoe

It is never too late to be wise.

Never

  

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

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Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

  

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

  

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.

  

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

  

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.

Never

  

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

  

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.

  

He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions.

  

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about : ...

  

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

  

Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.

  

I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.

  

All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Me

  

And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction.

  

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

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All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

  

Books are useful only to such whose genius are suitable to the subject of them

  

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.

  

I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over...

  

And now I saw, tho' too late, the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost; and before we judge rightly of our own Strength to go through with it.

  

This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

Me

  

Wait on the Lord, and be of good cheer, and he shall strengthen thy heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.

  

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

  

Misfortunes seldom come alone.

  

The best of men cannot defend their fate: the good die early, the bad die late.

  

And so my story begins, like so many stories, with a woman

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And in that one night's wickedness I drowned all my repentance,all my reflections upon my past conduct,and all my resolution for the future.

Past

  

And of all the plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

  

Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought more wicked than they are.

  

...For now I had five children by him: the only work perhaps that fools are good for.

  

Call on me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me.

Me

  

Ne poznavajući opasnost koja mi prijeti, bio sam jednako sretan kao da je zapravo i nije bilo.

  

Was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions

  

Strah od opasnosti je deset tisuća puta snažniji nego sama opasnost kad se pojavi pred o�ima.

  

...as this is ordinarily the fate of young heads, so reflection upon the folly of it, is as ordinarily the exercise of more years, or of the dear-bought experience of time....

Experience

  

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found upon examination The latter has the largest congregation.

  

Now I wished for my boy Xury, and the long boat with the shoulder of mutton sail, with which I sailed above a thousand miles on the coast of Africk; but this was in vain.

  

It is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another as it is to represent anything that really exists by that which exists not.

  

My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design. 

Me

  

I had never handled a tool in my life, and yet in time, by labour, application, and contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it.

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