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Daniel Defoe
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Quote 3570
I resolved for the future to have two or three years' corn beforehand.by: Daniel DefoeMore quotes on the topics: effort wisdom persistence
Quote 3569
I had no competitor, none to dispute sovereignty or command with me.by: Daniel DefoeQuote 3568
I was lord of the whole manor; or, if I pleased, I might call myself king or emperor over the whole country which I had possession of.by: Daniel DefoeQuote 3567
How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man!by: Daniel DefoeQuote 3566
I had now brought my state of life to be much easier in itself than it was at first, and much easier to my mind, as well as to my body.by: Daniel DefoeMore quotes on the topics: wisdom happiness experience
Quote 3565
I had enough to eat and supply my wants, and what was all the rest to me?by: Daniel DefoeQuote 3564
I had not the least advantage by it or benefit from it; but there it lay in a drawer, and grew mouldy with the damp of the cave in the wet seasons.by: Daniel DefoeMore quotes on the topics: experience wisdom reality
Quote 3436
In the midst of life we are in death.by: Daniel DefoeMore quotes on the topics: nature wisdom experience
Quote 3435
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.by: Daniel DefoeQuote 3434
The sight was, as I thought, the most delightful that ever I saw.by: Daniel DefoeMore quotes on the topics: nature happiness experience
Quote 3433
I was very seldom idle, but having regularly divided my time according to the several daily employments that were before me, such as: first, my duty to God, and the reading the Scriptures.by: Daniel DefoeQuote 3432
I frequently sat down to meat with thankfulness, and admired the hand of God's providence, which had thus spread my table in the wilderness.by: Daniel DefoeQuote 3431
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.by: Daniel DefoeQuote 3430
It is never too late to be wise.by: Daniel DefoeMore quotes on the topics: wisdom knowledge experience
Quote 3429
All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.by: Daniel DefoeQuote 3428
As to going home, shame opposed the best motions that offered to my thoughts, and it immediately occurred to me how I should be laughed at among the neighbours.by: Daniel DefoeMore quotes on the topics: judgment wisdom experience
Quote 3427
Being the third son of the family and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts.by: Daniel DefoeMore quotes on the topics: experience wisdom knowledge
Quote 582
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decayby: Daniel Defoe
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