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,...
eye secret destruction
I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.
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 : ...
party eye men
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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.
action virtue crime
Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes
europe history world
The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy to sell again, take in to send out again, and the greatest Part of their vast Commerce consists in being supply'd from All Parts of the World, that they may supply All th World Again.