All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.Daniel Defoe
Middle age is youth without its levity, And age without decay.
Daniel Defoe
From this amphibious, ill-born mob began That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.
Daniel Defoe
In the morning, looking towards the sea side, the tide being low, I saw something lie on the shore bigger than ordinary, and it looked like a cask when I came to it, I found a small barrel, and two or three pieces of the wreck of the ship, which were driven on shore by the late hurrican and looking towards the wreck itself, I thought it seemed to lie higher out of the water than it used to do.
Daniel Defoe
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe
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.
Daniel Defoe
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