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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
I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
— Daniel Defoe
And so my story begins, like so many stories, with a woman
— Daniel Defoe
Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised
— Daniel Defoe
Pleasure is a thief to business.
— 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
Wait on the Lord, and be of good cheer, and he shall strengthen thy heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.
— 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
Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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[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
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
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
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
