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Daniel Defoe Quotes - Page 3

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

Daniel Defoe (1761). “The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; of York, Mariner: With an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by pirates”, p.37

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

Daniel Defoe (1705). “A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of The True-born Englishman: Some Whereof Never Before Printed. Corrected and Enlarged by the Author”, p.166

And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction.

Daniel Defoe (1836). “The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner with an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe”, p.57

Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.

Daniel Defoe (1705). “A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of The True-born Englishman: Some Whereof Never Before Printed. Corrected and Enlarged by the Author”, p.166

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

Daniel Defoe, George Chalmers (1841). “The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe”

He that is rich is wise.

Daniel Defoe (1840). “A System of Magic”, p.19

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

Daniel Defoe (1788). “The True Born Englishman. A Satire. A New Edition”, p.14

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

Daniel Defoe (1810). “The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner ...: With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe”, p.333

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.

Daniel Defoe (1816). “The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe; including an account of his shipwreck, and residence for twenty-nine years on an unknown island: the remarkable history of his deliverance; and the extraordinary circumstances which afterwards befel him in various parts of the world”, p.197

What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?

Daniel Defoe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Daniel Defoe (Illustrated)”, p.4145, Delphi Classics

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

Daniel Defoe, Keeley Halswelle, William Henry Davenport Adams (1871). “The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner”, p.211

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

Daniel Defoe (1843). “The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt”, p.19