It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.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
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Daniel Defoe
Middle age is youth without its levity, And age without decay.
Daniel Defoe
Pride the first peer and president of hell.
Daniel Defoe
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares.
Daniel Defoe
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