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No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it. — Daniel Defoe

I rather wished for their ruin, than studied to avoid it. — Daniel Defoe

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. — Daniel Defoe

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

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 — Daniel Defoe

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

In their religion they are so uneven,
That each man goes his own byway to heaven. — Daniel Defoe

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. — Daniel Defoe

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised — Daniel Defoe

Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity. — Daniel Defoe

Pleasure is a thief to business. — Daniel Defoe

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

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

She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one. — Daniel Defoe

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

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. — Daniel Defoe

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

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction. — Daniel Defoe

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

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled. — Daniel Defoe

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late. — Daniel Defoe

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head. — Daniel Defoe

What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy? ... — Daniel Defoe

Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves! — Daniel Defoe

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

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. — Daniel Defoe

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

Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore. — Daniel Defoe

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

A True Born Englishman's a contradiction!
In speech and irony, in fact a fiction — Daniel Defoe

walked about a furlong — Daniel Defoe

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. — Daniel Defoe

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed. — Daniel Defoe

Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive. — Daniel Defoe

Friends are good,
good, if well chosen. — Daniel Defoe

Necessity makes an honest man a knave. — Daniel Defoe

miserable of all conditions in this world: that we may always find in it something to comfort ourselves from, and — Daniel Defoe

Actions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes — Daniel Defoe

Misfortunes seldom come alone. — Daniel Defoe

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. — Daniel Defoe

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

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil. — Daniel Defoe

inclinations prompted me to. But being one day at Hull, where — Daniel Defoe

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

I spent eighteen days entirely in widening and deepening my cave, — Daniel Defoe

In the middle of these cogitations, apprehensions, and reflections, — Daniel Defoe

Sure we are all made by some secret Power, who formed the earth and sea, the air and sky. — Daniel Defoe

It is never too late to be wise. — Daniel Defoe

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

[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey . — Daniel Defoe

How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man! — Daniel Defoe

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

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm. — Daniel Defoe

He that is rich is wise. — Daniel Defoe

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

Remember all men would be tyrants if they could - from a poem by Daniel Defoe, as written by Abigail to John Adams — David McCullough

If God much strong, much might, as the devil, why God not kill the devil, so make him no more wicked? — Daniel Defoe

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. — Daniel Defoe

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. — Daniel Defoe

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. — Daniel Defoe

It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore. — Daniel Defoe

No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh. — Daniel Defoe

Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England. — Daniel Defoe

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

Pride the first peer and president of hell. — Daniel Defoe

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise. — Daniel Defoe

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. — Daniel Defoe