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Find important quotes and citations by the author Daniel Defoe.
Quote 3570
I resolved for the future to have two or three years' corn beforehand.More quotes on the topics: effort wisdom persistence
Quote 3569
I had no competitor, none to dispute sovereignty or command with me.Quote 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.Quote 3567
How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man!Quote 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.More 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?Quote 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.More quotes on the topics: experience wisdom reality
Quote 3436
In the midst of life we are in death.More 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.Quote 3434
The sight was, as I thought, the most delightful that ever I saw.More 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.Quote 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.Quote 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.Quote 3430
It is never too late to be wise.More 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.Quote 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.More 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.More quotes on the topics: experience wisdom knowledge
Quote 582
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay