I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm. Daniel Defoe More Quotes by Daniel Defoe More Quotes From Daniel Defoe Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable. Daniel Defoe husband unhappy may Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England. Daniel Defoe manchester village england Actions receive their tincture from the times, Daniel Defoe crime virtue action He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them. Daniel Defoe littles believe looks This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued smoke of the forges, which are always at work: Here they make all sorts of cutlery-ware, but especially that of edged-tools, knives, razors, axes, &. and nails Daniel Defoe axes knives dark Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. Daniel Defoe ancestry parent yesterday Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity. Daniel Defoe prosperity adversity mean He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions. Daniel Defoe fool coward men Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer. Daniel Defoe peers gentleman england [The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey . Daniel Defoe devil law easy Whatever Party of Men obtain the Reins of Management, and have power to name the Person who shall License the Press, that Party of Men have the whole power of keeping the World in Ignorance, in all matters relating to Religion or Policy, since the Writers of that Party shall have full liberty to impose their Notions upon the World. Daniel Defoe party ignorance men Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction. Daniel Defoe redemption affliction sin I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer. Daniel Defoe design beer trying So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again. Daniel Defoe wickedness dark sleep He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise. Daniel Defoe poverty wise men I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly. Daniel Defoe distance sea children I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men. Daniel Defoe fool wise men Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves! Daniel Defoe church two hands What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy? Daniel Defoe sorrow joy men All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them. Daniel Defoe evil
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