Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe, born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Samuel Richardson, and is among the founders of the English novel. He was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics, including politics, crime,...
party eye men
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
inspirational people empathy
I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
soul-and-body lust literature
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
fear danger thousand
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
doors vices inclination
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
spring dark people
I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather than what I wanted : and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them ; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
wise too-late never-too-late
It is never too late to be wise.
honesty men knaves
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
fate men late
The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.
pride president firsts
Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
leadership army sheep
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.
above ancient king prince princes race themselves value
They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and the like; and above all, upon their ancient heroes: their King Caractacus Owen ap Tudor, Prince Lewellin, and the like noblemen and princes of Britis
builds chapel devil god house largest latter wherever
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
bigger came driven found higher late lie looked looking pieces saw sea seemed shore small three tide towards water wreck
In the morning, looking towards the sea side, the tide being low, I saw something lie on the shore bigger than ordinary, and it looked like a cask; when I came to it, I found a small barrel, and two or three pieces of the wreck of the ship, which were driven on shore by the late hurrican; and looking towards the wreck itself, I thought it seemed to lie higher out of the water than it used to do.