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,...
roots evil poverty
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
men evil design
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.
mean doors evil
...in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into...
eye evil anxiety
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 : ...
evil
All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
age middle youth
Middle age is youth without its levity,/ And age without decay.
began mob
From this amphibious ill-born mob began That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.
doctrine loved
We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.
doctrine sake teachers
We lov'd the doctrine for the teachers sake
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
stay-calm trouble
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
wise men poverty
He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.
cheer book heart
Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be of good Cheer, and he shall strengthen thy Heart; wait, I say, on the Lord:' It is impossible to express the Comfort this gave me. In Answer, I thankfully laid down the Book, and was no more sad, at least, not on that Occasion.
men heaven religion
In their religion they are so uneven, That each man goes his own byway to heaven.